Tuesday, April 21, 2020

For 21,000 DISD students, shelter-in-place means homework in a car

From The Dallas Morning News Editorial board:

The coronavirus is exposing things that our city, frankly, isn’t good at. Take, for example, the category of inequality known as the digital divide. Internet service is a tool of opportunity, a means of access to markets and information in much the same way that electricity or farm-to-market roads were in previous generations. Yet Texas ranks 38th in the U.S. in broadband adoption, with more than a third of Texas households unconnected.

And Dallas, along with Houston, San Antonio, El Paso and Corpus Christi, ranks among the top 25 large U.S. cities with the worst connections, according to census data.

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