Tagged With "Internet"
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Disconnected: Internet Stops Once School Ends for Many Rural California Students [edsource.org]
By Sydney Johnson, EdSource, December 6, 2019 Walk into any classroom in Alpaugh Unified and you will see teaching and learning using the latest technology. Students collaborate on digital documents, give presentations on interactive whiteboards, conduct research and even apply to colleges on Chromebooks. But for many students in Alpaugh, a small rural town about an hour north of Bakersfield in Tulare County, that online connection stops once the school day ends. “We have a disadvantage...
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Google to provide computers, internet to California students studying from home [sfchronicle.com]
By Alexei Koseff, San Francisco Chronicle, April 1, 2020 Google will provide thousands of computers and free internet access to help California students finish the school year online, Gov. Gavin Newsom said Wednesday. The company plans to donate 4,000 Chromebooks and make broadband internet available to 100,000 households through the end of the school year. Newsom said at a news conference that “Google stepped up in a big way,” but that more support was needed from the private sector to...
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Emergency Broadband Benefit
Please see attached flyers for FCC - Emergency Broadband Benefit. Eligibility information is on the flyer. This is a program through the Federal Communications Commission and provides discounts for households struggling to afford internet services.