As increasing technology adoption revolutionizes the way teachers teach and students learn, school districts need to continue to grow their bandwidth. The FCC has raised their bandwidth goal to 1Mbps per student and is the benchmark for expanding the reach of digital learning to every classroom, every day.
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Broadband activities are revving up in the Bay State. The timing is not a coincidence: with President Biden signing the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act into law in November 2021, and NTIA subsequently releasing Notices of Funding Opportunity which outline the Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment (BEAD) Program, Digital Equity Act, and Enabling Middle Mile Grant Infrastructure program in May 2022, states and localities find themselves in a new era of funding opportunities to finally close the digital divide. To connect the unconnected to affordable broadband, EducationSuperHighway has teamed up with organizations across Massachusetts to take advantage of this opportunity in three separate areas, described below.
The No Home Left Offline coalition unites diverse voices to advocate for policies that get unconnected households online, regardless of their zip code or living situation
