Mendocino County faculties obtain greater than $900,000 to enhance college students’ Web entry – The Mendocino Beacon

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Faculties and libraries in Mendocino County will obtain almost $1 million to enhance Web entry for kids and “shut the homework hole,” the workplace of Rep. Jared Huffman (D-San Rafael) introduced Tuesday.

Based on a March 15 press launch, the Federal Communications Fee’s Emergency Connectivity Fund Program “was created as a part of the American Rescue Plan and helps faculties and libraries make sure that college students can hook up with the web at dwelling, higher permitting them to make the most of on-line studying assets and achieve their tutorial targets (and assist shut) the homework hole,” which refers to how “college students who lack entry to the web at dwelling typically fall behind their friends.”

“The world has moved on-line, and youngsters with out entry to the web and the alternatives that gives are sometimes left to fall behind,” Rep. Huffman is quoted as saying within the launch. “I’m glad to have supported this program and can maintain working to shut the homework hole. Each pupil deserves the assets they should succeed – no matter their zip code or circumstance.”

Based on the FCC, the $7.17 billion program has offered California with over $660 million in complete funding thus far, serving to “cowl prices of laptop computer and pill computer systems, Wi-Fi hotspots, modems, routers, and broadband connectivity purchases for off-campus use by college students, college workers, and library patrons.”

The discharge additionally reviews that Mendocino County faculties and libraries will obtain almost $1 million:

  • $99,599.74 for the Anderson Valley Unified Faculty District;
  • $665,356.90 for the Fort Bragg Unified Faculty District
  • $56,000.00 for the Laytonville Unified Faculty District
  • $13,555.20 for the Leggett Valley Unified Faculty District
  • $30,882.00 for the Mendocino County Library
  • $37,523.11 for the Mendocino Unified Faculty District
  • $9,600.00 for the Willits Constitution Faculty
  • $2,616.83 for the Willits Elementary Constitution Faculty
  • $29,993.06 for the Willits Unified Faculty District

Huffman spokeswoman Mary Hurrell mentioned the allocations have been primarily based on what every college district or facility requested, however couldn’t give particulars as to why the $665,356 allocation to the Fort Bragg Unified Faculty District was a lot larger that the opposite distributions.

Ari Rule-Gustafson, the Director of Know-how for FBUSD, defined in an e-mail that the district was “awarded two funding quantities of $332,678.45 every from the (Emergency Connectivity Fund). These awards have been to complement two separate purchases of 1,000 chromebooks for distant studying, and our 1:1 machine program.The district paid the remaining steadiness on every order. All of our college students now have entry to a tool and may take them dwelling, as effectively.”



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