A press conference was held Wednesday afternoon to announce our area will receive $11 million in Federal grant money to improve Internet services. The money will be used to lay fiber-optic cable to connect local government, schools and public safety.
“We currently do a lot with video distance learning, some with online learning, we’ve been limited in the past by the amount of work we can do because of the lack of bandwidth,” says Ross Wilson, CESA 10 Director of Education Technology. “This will give increased bandwidth to a number of school districts.”
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