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Antonio Coronel, the father of a first grader at Moya Elementary in Phoenix, said his daughter had to miss the first three months of the school year because they didn t have reliable internet access for her to attend class virtually. We tried getting internet access on our own account, but at the end we weren t able to, he said in Spanish.
Through an internet initiative by the Isaac Elementary School District and Arizona State University, his daughter has been able to successfully connect to the internet and log in to class.
Schools across the state have been trying to provide internet access to students who otherwise would not have had it since the beginning of the pandemic.
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Seven Mackay and Isaac region schools will come under scrutiny this year with a focus on NAPLAN results, teacher performance and attendance rates.
The Department of Education will extensively review Dysart, Emerald North, Mirani, Marian, Pinnacle and Tieri State Schools as well as Mackay Northern Beaches State High School.
They join more than 350, or about a quarter of Queensland public schools, scheduled for their four-yearly review in 2021 from the Education Improvement Branch comprised of many former and current school principals.
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