Cesar Chavez Academy District

CCA provides laptops to seniors

The Cesar Chavez Academy High School has provided netbooks for each of the 100 seniors. The netbooks will allow the students to take college courses online at Brigham Young University and online classes if they fall behind, school officials said.

The charter school, one of four that make up a quasi-charter school district in southwest Detroit, is the only one of its kind doing this in the area, school leader Juan Jose Martinez said. "The exciting thing is, it is something the kids need," he said. "We all hear about the digital divide."