Schools win grant to boost broadband in classrooms

  • New ETUSD trustee Misty Johnston looks over briefing sheets at data-rich board meeting last week. [photo by Patric Hedlund]

    New ETUSD trustee Misty Johnston looks over briefing sheets at data-rich board meeting last week. [photo by Patric Hedlund]

By Patric Hedlund

High speed broadband internet is on its way to most Mountain Community schools by springtime.

Notice arrived late last week that federal and state funds are pouring into the effort to upgrade broadband infrastructure in schools throughout California. Some of that is heading this way. Frazier Park School, El Tejon School, Gorman School and Frazier Mountain High School will all benefit.

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“This is a big push, because the grant wants it done before May 2015,” Johannis (Joe) Andrews, principal and superintendent at Gorman Elementary School said…(please see below to view full stories and photographs)

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New ETUSD trustee Misty Johnston looks over briefing sheets at data-rich board meeting last week.

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