Abstract
At the most recent National Forum to Advance Rural Education in November of 2020, editor Devon Brenner led a panel discussion about current and future efforts to expand broadband access for rural schools and communities with Brandon Presley, Public Service Commissioner for the Northern District of Mississippi; John Conradi, executive director of Connect Americans Now; and two Mississippi school leaders, Wayne Rodolfich, superintendent of the Pascagoula-Gautier School District, and Tyler Hansford, superintendent of Union City School District and chair of the Mississippi Rural Education Association. Their conversation is excerpted here. Some portions have been edited for cohesiveness and clarity.
Highlights
We oversee the Universal Service Fund expenditures for broadband access, broadband expansion into rural areas, and we'll be playing a pivotal role in the Rural Digital Opportunity Fund, which is soon to release $16 billion nationwide [Editor’s Note: See https://www.fcc.gov/auction/904 for more about the Rural Digital Opportunity Fund.]
I'm the superintendent of the Pascagoula-Gautier School District
We're a small K-12 in rural Mississippi, and I'm pretty new to the broadband internet discussion, but what we knew was a problem before COVID-19 has just been magnified, even worse
Summary
Brenner: Wayne and Tyler, as district leaders, what are some of the band-aids that you are using that are helping to provide online learning opportunities for students who may not be able to come to school? We have the largest expansion of fiber to the home internet service in America going on in the state of Mississippi.
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