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Board approves laptops, ISP contract, cleanup and new food-service co-op; students praise fresh lunches

Palmdale Aerospace Academy Board · February 18, 2026
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Trustees approved multiple procurement items including teacher laptops and an ISP contract; they also authorized cleanup and hazardous-removal contracts, and voted to join a Supercoop JPA to support a new scratch-cooking food service that administrators said increased meals served by up to 500 a day.

The Palmdale Aerospace Academy board approved a slate of operational contracts Tuesday, including a teacher-laptop refresh, an Internet-service provider contract under E-rate rules, site cleanup and hazardous-material remediation, and membership in a food-service purchasing cooperative.

Mister Duarte presented the request to purchase replacement laptops for classroom teachers, citing updated port configurations and touchscreen functionality to better support instruction. "This is purely teachers,"…

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