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The pandemic has upended almost every aspect of school. Educators are rethinking instruction, testing, teacher preparation, the role of technology, attendance and even the length of a school day and structure of a school year.
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Public Knowledge Celebrates FCC Action To Connect the Vulnerable With New $50 Broadband Subsidy
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WASHINGTON,
Feb. 26, 2021:
Yesterday, the
Federal Communications Commission voted on circulation to approve a Report and Order to establish the Emergency Broadband Benefit Program, a
$3.2 billion federal initiative to provide qualifying households discounts on their internet service bills and an opportunity to receive a discount on a computer, laptop, or tablet. The program created by
Congress subsidizes broadband and device payments for low-income consumers or families hit hard by the pandemic, including students and the unemployed.
The program follows several months of advocacy from Public Knowledge, including an early proposal for an emergency broadband subsidy by Senior Vice President
The Daily Yonder Experts Discuss the Importance of Rural Perspective for Policy Making The Future of Rural America under President Biden” panel warned that the lack of rural input is responsible for decades of structural issues that harm entire populations.
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Landscape around Kenyon College, the host of the February 18th, 2021 panel, entitled “The Future of Rural America under President Biden.” (Photo by Daniel Napsha)
Rural perspectives should be present in every office in the Biden administration, said a panel of rural policy experts convened by students at Kenyon College.
When decision-makers don’t understand rural communities, bad policy can be the result.