The National Hispanic Leadership Coalition recommends expanding digital access and...
The National Hispanic Leadership Coalition recommends expanding digital access and protecting consumers in its new annual policy report. The FCC should expand its E-rate program “to subsidize teacher training to help students gain digital literacy skills and keep computer labs…
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open in poor neighborhoods after school hours and on weekends” and there should be more “competition in the broadband and mobile phone markets to promote lower prices and protect consumers from predatory billing and privacy practices,” according to the 2012 Hispanic Policy Agenda released Wednesday (http://xrl.us/bnmstj). The coalition also said the Lifeline program should be modified to include broadband and pushed for more funding of English- and Spanish-language digital literacy training. The group also said it supports expanded telecom infrastructure “to improve connectivity in rural and underserved areas, schools, libraries and community centers” and passage of the Wireless Tax Fairness Act.