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The Pandemic Fueled Gains in Digital Equity. But for Native Tribes, It’s Complicated.

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When pueblos in New Mexico looked into running fiber into Jemez Day School, a K-6 school run by the Bureau of Indian Education, they were launching a complicated process. Broadband — high-speed internet — is critical for learning. And the pandemic focused attention on inequitable access to broadband services in education.

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Mission (Almost) Accomplished: Nonprofit EducationSuperHighway Prepares to Sunset

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Instead, EducationSuperHighway is sunsetting because, well, that’s what Marwell always intended it to do—once the organization reached its expressed goal of connecting 99 percent of K-12 students to high-speed broadband. The education community could have seen this coming. Department of Education and the White House.

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FCC Issues New Category Two Rules

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The Federal Communications Commission has issued a highly anticipated Report and Order (12/3/2019), that makes notable and permanent changes to E-rate rules for Category Two funding applications. The adoption of fixed five-year budget cycles means that the first such cycle will run from FY 2021 through 2025.

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