With continued uncertainty around the coronavirus, parents and educators are forced to make difficult decisions as the school year approaches.
"It's astonishing to be in the heart of Silicon Valley and there are so many people who don't have internet access," Conley added."We've reached a point in our daily existence where the internet is like water." Chief Executive Officer Megan Steckly readies computers to be distributed at Comp-U-Dopt, April 14, 2020, in Houston.
, 75% of American adults in urban areas had at-home broadband, compared with just 63% in rural areas. Chavez, a first-generation college graduate, said her twin sister was"left behind" by the education system and that this inspired her to fight for all students to have access to educational resources.
"We're pushing this infrastructure, this digital access beyond the short term with the hotspots," Chavez continued,"so that you can just turn on your computer and have internet in the highest-need areas in the East Side of San Jose.""This digital divide is not new, but it's been amplified to another degree with COVID-19," she added.Other states, including Georgia, also are scrambling to provide for students in suburban or rural areas.
"We purchased over 4,000 devices to distribute to our families in need to access the digital learning," she added.
we need to organize a domestic peace core, get folks unemployed that can help students in their homes, and in return, they can't be evicted from their home, have paid health insurance, food allowance. We need to keep kids safe. They can help with the elderly.
The students and teachers need to be back in school.
tedcruz infrastructures/access : “school choice”
Broadcast it on a local channel. You capitalists can be abhorrent
They need to hit the weight room instead. School is a waste of time anyway.
I'm against reopening of schools
they need to just keep this generation out of school. we are going to need the farm labor since trump is banning all aliens.
Never knew what it was like to start with one.
Conducted many interviews with professors regarding satellite cheating? Better yet, see what the graduate student teaching assistants have to say on said topic. And would hate to miss out on input from veteran k-6, middle school & H.S. faculty and staff. Coaches not so much.
Improving access to online education should have been a priority for the last twenty years. But no, we wait until there's a crisis and then 'scramble.'
No it TRUMPS NEED NOT TO HEL STOP Covid He wants all kids as low IQ as he was in school
Maybe school choice?
Well that is what you wanted.
The leftist Governors wanted virtual learning, now they’re complaining about their own policies and inadequacies. These people are deranged
Like Northern California this morning. Thanks, GetSpectrum
America touts itself as the TOP technological country! What went wrong? Third World Country!
You can thank me too