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How school leaders can join broadband expansion efforts

from District Administration Magazine

How school leaders can join broadband expansion efforts District Administration Magazine Superintendents proceeding with online learning programs can play a critical role in state and local efforts to extend high-speed, broadband internet to more homes in their communities. The coronavirus closures brought widespread attention to a problem that had long been clear to many in K-12 education: a substantial number of students — some 9 million by many estimates — can't connect to the internet when they're not in school. In efforts to narrow to this so-called "homework gap," many superintendents handed out mobile WiFi hotspots, placed routers on buses and helped families connect to low-cost internet service. READ MORE

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