Bridging the Digital Divide Part II – School Districts Arranging Internet to Student Homes

The COVID-19 pandemic and the broadband requirements for teachers’ and students’ ability to carry out remote teaching and learning from home exposed the thousands of Nebraska households that had no internet or a lack of internet. This problem is not easily solved, but there are steps that school districts can take to ensure that every staff and student household is connected with internet.

Attend this Part 2 session to learn about service providers’ efforts, public-private partnerships, various wireless technologies, and the associated costs for deployment. Several wireless pilot projects will be discussed and what end-users can expect from the technology installations.

Part I session: Bridging the Digital Divide—Collecting and Mapping Student Home Internet Data.