“Covid-19 has shown a very harsh light on inequities of the homework gap. Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.), who is co-sponsoring Markey’s bill, said in an interview the money is a top priority for CARES-2, the next stimulus bill Congress is working on. “We cannot allow the homework gap to become a larger learning gap or a life-long opportunity gap,” Markey said in an emailed statement. Grace Meng (D-N.Y.), which would provide $2 billion for Wi-Fi devices. Ed Markey (D-Mass.), plan to introduce legislation next week that would steer $4 billion to provide wireless devices to connect students without internet at home during the pandemic. Meanwhile, Republican FCC Chairman Ajit Pai is pushing for Congress to fund a separate remote learning program altogether.Ībout 12 million children, including 7 million school-age children, lived in households without regular internet access in 2017, according to the latest data from the National Telecommunications and Information Administration. Democratic lawmakers are pushing for billions of dollars of new funding to go in an existing Federal Communications Commission broadband program to provide wireless devices to students in the next coronavirus stimulus legislation.
highlights the digital divide on students’ access to internet at home. The rapid switch to online education for 55 million school-aged children in the U.S. Others still don’t have Wi-Fi or have to share it,” said Racette, who teaches math and science, in an interview. “There are some students who still don’t have technology.
But weeks after the school switched to online instruction, fewer than half of Racette’s 50 third-grade students have even logged into video lessons in Google Classroom, in part because of technology and connectivity barriers. That changed after Howe School of Excellence and other campuses across the country closed their doors in response to the coronavirus pandemic. At Justin Racette’s West Chicago elementary school, instructors rarely assigned homework online before April.
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