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The engineering/infrastructure task force of the Fast Access...

The engineering/infrastructure task force of the Fast Access for Students, Teachers and Economic Results Arkansas committee submitted its recommendations to Gov. Mike Beebe (D) on how to improve broadband access to schools, in a report Tuesday. Act 1280, signed into…

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law in April, will require Arkansas public school districts to provide at least one digital learning course to their students beginning in the 2014-2015 school year (http://bit.ly/18ma5Jz). The task force recommended the state’s network have the capacity to “provide concurrent access” to world-class educational content for all students and staff and the ability to grow and adapt to meet future demands, said the report. For the 2014-2015 school year, the task force recommends making 100 kbps available at minimum for each student and staff member and at least 1 Mbps available by the 2017-2018 school year, it said. Management for statewide network support services should be centralized, including operations for billing, E-rate applications, network recommendations/implementation/construction, network monitoring and problem resolution while the individual school districts should manage local area networks that interconnect school buildings, it said. The Arkansas Research Education Optical Network should be extended to provide connectivity to K-12 institutions, said the report.