Tens of thousands of students went without computers in the fall even as gap narrowed | The Daily Gazette
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Around 8 percent of public school students statewide did not have access to a computer device and 6 percent did not have adequate internet access this fall, according to a survey of schools the state Education Department conducted in the fall.
Over 200,000 across the state did not have access to a computer device when districts responded to the survey, even as the access gap narrowed from the spring, when schools overnight transitioned to remote learning.
The bulk of the students without device access, about 125,000 of them, live in New York City, but still around 90,000 students outside of the city did not have device access, according to the reports from schools compiled by the state. Over 99 percent of schools responded to the survey.