{"content":[{"text":"BRINGING \n BROADBAND HOME: \n HOW SCHOOL DISTRICTS CAN HELP CONNECT \n STUDENTS WITH HIGH-SPEED INTERNET NOW \n JUNE 2021","bbox":{"left":0.094706,"top":0.049899,"width":0.6191390000000001,"height":0.181662}},{"text":"EXECUTIVE SUMMARY \n With unprecedented attention and resources to address the digital divide, we stand at a critical juncture. It will take \n years for necessary broadband infrastructure to be built and for increased provider competition to take hold. But \n school districts have an immediate opportunity to connect their students and families to incoming federal and state \n resources and ensure all students have broadband internet at home when they return to school in the fall. To ensure \n this, districts must: \n 1. identify household-level need; \n 2. use school lunch program data to pre-qualify families for subsidized broadband internet; and \n 3. create school-level systems to connect all families to broadband programs and partners. \n High-speed internet is essential -- for homework, school assignments, healthcare, employment and more. We cannot \n tolerate continued digital inequity and must seize this opportunity to address it for students for the upcoming 2021-22 \n school year.","bbox":{"left":0.088235,"top":0.295657,"width":0.8232170000000001,"height":0.23888800000000004}},{"text":"THE DIGITAL EQUITY IMPERATIVE \n If we have learned anything in education over the past poverty have been systematically disenfranchised yet \n 15 months, it is that access to high-quality internet is again by a system of schooling that privileges those with \n as essential to schooling as textbooks, desks and other greater access and resources. \n materials. However, even after more than a year of \n Even after students return to campus, high-quality home \n mostly remote learning, one in five California households \n internet is necessary to continue learning. Teaching \n with K–12 students told the Census Bureau in late March \n and learning have adapted to the digital environment \n they don’t consistently have the internet access needed \n and unlocked new opportunities for students who \n for virtual school. The situation is particularly troubling \n are connected. It would not serve students well to \n for students of color: UCLA researchers estimated that \n try to revert back to approaches that do not leverage \n Black and Latinx students are 30-40% less likely to have \n these tools. Moreover, families need high-quality \n robust access to the internet. Some progress has been \n internet access to participate in critical services and \n made, particularly with emergency measures led by \n opportunities, including healthcare, employment, \n such school districts as LA Unified to purchase devices \n continuing education and civic life. \n and hotspots for students, but even in Los Angeles, \n recent data suggests that 24% of students participating The good news is that the long-standing fight for digital \n in distance learning are using internet that is below equity has new resources and commitments from local, \n the FCC’s (relatively low) standard of 25 Megabits per state and federal leaders, with billions of new dollars \n second (Mbps). This means that robust live learning flowing into the system to address broadband access. \n with teachers, counselors and other students is still not Most immediately, school districts have an opportunity \n feasible for tens of thousands of students in Los Angeles. to connect their students and families to these resources \n As such, students of color and students experiencing in time for the fall semester. The time to act is now.","bbox":{"left":0.088235,"top":0.575581,"width":0.8193630000000001,"height":0.36131199999999997}},{"text":"Bringing Broadband Home","bbox":{"left":0.067386,"top":0.959596,"width":0.162512,"height":0.015522999999999954}},{"text":"June 2021","bbox":{"left":0.506747,"top":0.960414,"width":0.062205999999999984,"height":0.015522999999999954}},{"text":"Partnership for Los Angeles Schools","bbox":{"left":0.612375,"top":0.960409,"width":0.21591800000000005,"height":0.015522999999999954}},{"text":"1","bbox":{"left":0.918296,"top":0.959596,"width":0.007816000000000045,"height":0.015619999999999967}}],"images_bbox":[],"images_bbox_not_text_overlap":[]}