Maine Broadband Efforts Prep to Reward Bond Money
Last month, the state awarded $5.6 million in federal coronavirus relief funds to connect more than 700 students and teachers in rural Maine with high-speed Internet service to support remote learning. by Glenn Jordan, Portland Press Herald / December 16, 2020 Mercedes Mehling/Unsplash
(TNS) Last month, the Mills administration awarded $5.6 million in federal coronavirus relief funds to connect more than 700 students and teachers in rural
Maine with high-speed internet service to support remote learning.
The ongoing public-private partnership, dubbed ConnectKidsNow!, involved seven internet service providers, 71 towns and a two-month window. It also provided a few lessons for how the state can best allocate the $15 million approved by