Emergency purchase ensures every Paterson student will have a Chromebook for school

Emergency shipments of more than 9,000 Chromebooks over the past days will allow the Paterson school district to provide every student with an electronic device for remote learning when the academic year starts next week, officials announced.

Paterson had faced a shortage of thousands of devices after the China-based vendor that was supposed to provide the Chromebooks became entangled in trade sanctions earlier this year that stalled production.