West Virginia schools were able to upgrade broadband...
West Virginia schools were able to upgrade broadband connections and bring high-speed Internet to 195 schools that lacked access, via an NTIA grant from the Broadband Technology Opportunities Program (BTOP), said Laura Dodson, BTOP director-comprehensive communities infrastructure, in a blog…
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post Thursday (http://1.usa.gov/1fCCAG1). Dodson said she visited Southside K-8 School in McDowell County, where she saw how the school was using its fiber-based 100 Mbps connection to allow any Southside student to get online. The BTOP grant helped to bring a fiber broadband connection to 750 public elementary and high schools in the state, Dodson wrote. The West Virginia broadband grant helped fund the buildout of 675 network miles and connected more than 1,100 community anchor institutions, said Dodson. Dodson said the grant expanded the number of opportunities for students. “In Grant County, students who couldn’t get online courses they needed to graduate were able to finally fulfill those requirements once improved broadband was installed in the county schools, allowing them to take the classes they needed during the summer,” she wrote. “And at East Bank Middle School in Kanawha County, students and teachers could not use the school’s network at the same time because it lacked the necessary bandwidth until the NTIA-funded grant helped upgrade the schools’ network."