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A hidden, public internet asset that could get more kids online for learning

The Hechinger Report

In 2004, President George W. Bush called for universal broadband access in America by 2007. A 2015 Pew Research Center report revealed that the disconnected included 5 million households with school-aged children, who either couldn’t afford home broadband or lived in rural areas avoided by for-profit internet companies.