77 Percent of Schools Connected to Broadband, Report Finds
Since 2013, 20 million more students have been connected to broadband at the FCC's minimum access goal of 100 kbps per student, said EducationSuperHighway in its inaugural State of the States report. That year, only 30 percent of schools met…
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the FCC's goal, but now 77 percent of school districts do, the study said. In 2013, 300,000 teachers had the tools they needed, now 1.7 million teachers have the broadband they need to keep up in the 21st century, the paper said. The report tracks the progress of K-12 connectivity goals as established by the FCC. The information is based on application data from the FCC's Schools and Libraries Program and includes information from 6,781 public school districts, with more than 25 million students in about 49,000 schools in the 50 states, the report said. An analysis of the data found that school districts without fiber are 15 percent less likely to meet the FCC's connectivity goals and for the schools that meet the goal, the report said. EducationSuperHighway estimates it will cost about $1 billion to connect the remaining schools that don't have fiber, which it says is well within the E-rate program's budget.