Education Superhighway

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

Jim Beasley’s mission to upgrade Llano Independent School District’s network began when he first started working there in 2005. The school district must leverage distance education — which requires a strong broadband connection. His biggest barrier to getting rural high speed internet?

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Hack Education

MARCH 8, 2017

Wheeler had been a “champion” of net neutrality and E-rate reform, according to Education Week at least, but his replacement, Trump appointee Ajit Pai, seems poised to lead the agency with a very different set of priorities – and those priorities will likely shape in turn what happens to ed-tech under Trump. .”

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 2, 2016

DeVos herself sat on the Board of Directors of the Acton Institute from 1995 to 2005, an organization that recently blogged about repealing child labor laws. million in E-Rate rebates.). In February, CoSN, the Consortium for School Networking, called broadband access outside of school a “ civil right ” for students.

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