More than 21 million Americans do not have access to high-speed Internet, according to the Federal Communications Commission’s latest data. The inequality looms large as schools in more than a dozen states as well as the District of Columbia shutter in response to coronavirus. He said he's long operated under a working assumption that “approximately 60 percent of Detroit public school students don't have high-speed Internet,” citing concerns around cost and billing. In the northwest corner of her state, Northshore School District this month launched one such experiment. In the end, though, local school district administrators decided they couldn’t do it, realizing many of their students might struggle to get online.

Source: Washington Post March 16, 2020 10:16 UTC