Rural Kids Face an Internet ‘Homework Gap.’ The FCC Could Help

District leaders are eager to pilot an ambitious, statewide broadband initiative. Utah’s schools are hardwired with high-speed internet through a statewide network. The new plan would extend that network into a wireless blanket of access covering rural households and the highways on which students spend hours busing to and from sports and other activities.

The broadband expansion is supported by the managers of the existing network, and the plan’s backers could tap multiple funding sources for education technology. But the pilot can’t get started without one critical missing ingredient–access to frequencies of electromagnetic spectrum.

Chris Berdik

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