President Donald Trump signed the $2 trillion Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act last week. The rescue package includes over $30 billion for public schools and colleges.
Education advocates urged Congress to include $2 billion toward the federal E-Rate program to provide students with broadband internet and internet-connected devices. The package doesn’t include E-Rate funding but does allocate $25 million to support distance learning in rural school districts.
Widening The ‘Homework Gap’?
Joe Fleming, a lobbyist with the Georgia Association of Educators (GAE), says a lack of access to broadband internet is a big hurdle for the state’s rural districts trying to shift to digital learning.
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