Georgia Classrooms To Get Updated, High-Speed Broadband With Grant
Georgia Gov. Nathan Deal (R) said 48 local education authorities will get more than $8.2 million to update broadband access. Word of the grants, from the third round of the Connections for Classrooms program, came in a news release from…
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the governor's office. The Connections for Classrooms program is a funding effort of the Governor’s Office of Student Achievement, the Georgia Department of Education and the OneGeorgia Authority to give classrooms across the state access to high-speed broadband, it said. The funds will allow the local education authorities, which include 47 districts and one state school, to receive $16.8 million in federal E-rate funds, for a total investment of $25 million in school and classroom network infrastructure, it said. Across three grant rounds, the Connections for Classrooms program has provided more than $70 million in grants to 157 local education authorities to meet that goal and has enabled them to be eligible for up to $110 million in federal E-rate funds, it said. Round three capitalizes on the recent $2 billion expansion of the federal E-rate program’s Category 2, which provides grants to local education authorities for school-level network infrastructure that can provide local match funding, it said.