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The problem for many families in Ashtabula County isn’t that they don’t have internet, it’s that they don’t have or cannot afford speeds that can handle the load of several children learning at home at once.
The COVID-19 pandemic has spotlighted an issue that Ohio’s rural communities have been struggling with for years: the lack of adequate broadband service. It’s particularly affected education in parts of the state like Ashtabula County. Some parents say their kids have fallen behind simply because they can’t get online from home.
At the mercy of bandwidth