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17 million students lack home internet. With no relief from Congress in sight, schools deploy an awkward mix of buses, mobile hotspots to get them online

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17 million students lack home internet. With no relief from Congress in sight, schools deploy an awkward mix of buses, mobile hotspots to get them online The 74 Distance learning starts in two weeks in Washington's Central Kitsap School District, and Debbie Bryan, director of information services and technology, still isn't sure how she's going to connect students in some of the district's more remote areas to the internet. It's not for a lack of technology, she explained: The district has 10 internet-enabled school buses in its fleet, every school building is "blasting out Wi-Fi in the parking lot," and the district handed out personal hotspots to families as fast as Bryan could buy them. READ MORE

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