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North Carolina’s Digital Success Story

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For over a decade, North Carolina has been the site of one of the most sustained, successful initiatives in education: giving all students in all schools access to broadband internet with WiFi in every classroom by 2018. Among its several objectives, BETA decided in 2004 to launch a statewide school connectivity upgrade.

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The History of the Future of E-rate

Hack Education

The legislation also ordered telecom companies to provide their services to all public schools and libraries at discounted rates – from 20% to 90% off depending on the services provided and number of students receiving free and reduced school lunches. ” Among them: an $8.71

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