Seventy percent of district leaders have no information on students’ Internet access away from school, says the Consortium for School Networking, which represents K-12 chief tech officers.
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The Facebook executive and his wife say they will donate 99 percent of their Facebook shares, worth $45 billion, to a host of public health and education efforts.
Businesses working with schools can help themselves by closely monitoring applications to the E-rate program, and their use of federal discounts made available, a newly published guide says.
Anyone who pushes the E-rate program’s boundaries will be prosecuted, and schools should be wary of building a fiber network themselves, he said.
After reforming the E-rate program, and increasing its budget, the Federal Communications Commission said all eligible applications from schools and libraries will receive funding.
A new Education Week special report profiles school districts’ efforts to bring blended learning home by increasing needy students’ access to out-of-school Wi-Fi.
Deborah S. Delisle, a top official at the U.S. Department of Education, said amid a growing anti-testing backlash, state and local officials need to evaluate how their assessments are used.
School and library officials applauded the FCC’s action, because they believe it prevents their institutions from being relegated to a “slow lane” of Internet service.
By proposing that Internet service be regulated much like public utilities are, the FCC official seeks to retain “net neutrality.”