photo by: Austin Hornbostel/Journal-World The Douglas County Commission listens to a presenter appearing via Zoom during the commission’s meeting on Wednesday, Aug. 17, 2022. Douglas County leaders were unanimous Wednesday in supporting a project that would increase the quality of internet access in rural areas […]
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Varied accessibility to broadband internet has compromised the quality of education for University students, as most classes are online and rely on high speed internet for synchronous remote learning — just 27 percent of classes have an in-person component. Broadband refers to a high-speed internet that is always on. According […]
DENVER (AP) — Colorado will spend $2 million in federal pandemic relief funding to provide internet access to students who lack service as part of an overall effort to close the digital divide in both rural and urban parts of the state as the pandemic has forced many to rely […]
The state also partnered with T-Mobile to provide 34,000 WiFi hotspots and up to 100 gigabytes of data a year to low-income families who qualify. DENVER, Colorado — Democratic Gov. Jared Polis announced Wednesday that $2 million from the CARES Act will be sent to districts to address the 65,000 […]
This is the fourth in a series of stories examining how school districts around the country are coping with the coronavirus pandemic. You can read the whole series here. By Jackie Valley and Jazmin Orozco/The Nevada Independent On weekdays in the spring, Angela McVicars began her mornings as a pseudo-information […]
MONTREAL, Aug. 20, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — While access control is a fundamental element of security in higher education, many aging access control systems urgently need to be upgraded, according to a survey of 1,800 higher education security and IT professionals conducted by Genetec Inc., a leading technology provider of […]