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Texas big plan for closing the digital divide: at-home broadband internet for every student FacebookTwitterEmail 1of6 Luis Rodriguez, Xfinity comp tech supervisor, is shown with a home modem Thursday, March 4, 2021 in Houston. Texas Education Agency officials are targeting a new, unprecedented goal in the coming years to ensure all public-school students have at-home broadband internet.Melissa Phillip, Houston Chronicle / Staff photographerShow MoreShow Less 2of6 Luis Rodriguez, Xfinity comp te...

Texas students need additional resources to overcome academic setbacks brought on by the pandemic, but school leaders aren’t so sure they’ll have the flexibility to spend new federal dollars to help them. The federal government gave Texas two big education stimulus packages — totaling around $6.8 billion — to help students recover from the pandemic. But as the first package of $1.3 billion flowed to districts, local school administrators saw aid cut elsewhere. It was hard to keep up wit...

Boston Consulting Group, Common Sense Media and the Southern Education Foundation issued a report last month about the big picture of digital inequity in education, as well as potential solutions.

Contribution from WISD Waxahachie ISD high school students have received a new tool to help them be successful in a 21st-century learning environment. Reliable and accessible technology is a crucial part of learning, particularly during a pandemic, and Waxahachie ISD continues to invest in technology resources for students. The district issued Dell laptops to every Waxahachie High School student as part of Operation Connectivity, a state program that subsidized half of the cost through the Cor...

Dallas ISD said Hinojosas work has allowed the school district to remain at the forefront of twenty-first-century education and the conversion to digital learning. Hinojosa also pushed for increased access to technology across Texas for all students regardless of their economic status in an effort to mitigate the consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic on student achievement. Dallas ISD said Hinojosa, along with state lawmakers and the Texas Education Agency, helped to launch Operation Connectiv...

Although the federal government’s Families First Coronavirus Response Act expired on Dec. 31, Paris ISD teachers and staff will continue to have the guaranteed paid time off should they need

Nacogdoches ISD has received 3,429 Chromebooks, and the laptop computers are being distributed to campuses for use by students. The devices were delivered to the district last week and began going out to campuses Dec. 11. NISD technology staff and Absolute Technologies, a vendor assisting the district, began cataloging the devices before sending them on to campuses. Each Chromebook will be registered and assigned to a student for use in the classroom and at home. The purchase approved earlier t...