North Carolina, West Virginia Set Up Remote Learning Hot Spots
North Carolina will direct $40 million to fund internet for students’ remote learning, Gov. Roy Cooper (D) said Wednesday. It includes $30 million to distribute 100,000 wireless hot spots; $8 million for wireless access points in school parking lots, municipal…
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areas, state parks, museums and historic sites; and $2 million for remote-learning training. West Virginia activated 848 free Wi-Fi hot spots through the state’s Kids Connect initiative to set up internet access points at pre-K-12 schools, libraries, higher education facilities, state parks and National Guard armories, Gov. Jim Justice (R) said Tuesday. “We’re going to have over 1,000 of these sites very soon.”