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Homework in a McDonald’s parking lot: Inside one mother’s fight to help her kids get an education during coronavirus

The Hechinger Report

Widespread lack of broadband access complicates learning. Since 2010, five rural hospitals have closed in Mississippi alone, and almost half of the state’s rural hospitals are at risk of closing. The digital divide. Almost 40 percent of households in Washington County don’t have broadband service at home.

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The History of the Future of E-rate

Hack Education

As an op-ed in The Washington Post put it , “The FCC talks the talk on the digital divide – and then walks in the other direction.” million settlement paid by Hewlett Packard in 2010 over accusations of fraud. As part of these modernization efforts , in 2015 the funding cap for E-rate was increased to $3.9

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