school internet speeds

school internet speeds

12 years ago
Frank Ohrtman Super Voter Flag

I have been dissecting USAC data, surveying school tech folks and have gathered school internet data (bandwidth they subscribe to, who they buy it from and what they pay) on almost 1/3rd of our districts.
Most striking realization: Secom, a division of SE CO Power Assoc. a rural electric COOP offers the best deals to school districts in its footprint: 100 Mbps for $1.25/Mbps/month. Contrast that with investor-owned CenturyLink at $100+/Mbps/month
Why is that important? Next year, all TCAP testing is online. If a school district is not buying enough bandwidth, they may score badly on the the TCAP which could result in the worst case of the school being taken over by the State.

Where do we go from here? Who will contact their school board president to discuss what internet speeds the school district is currently buying?

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  1. Bart Weller Super Voter Flag
    11 years 10 months
    reply to

    Marble Charter School

    The Marble Charter School, part of the Gunnison Watershed School District, is currently unserved, but has two HughesNet satellite dishes that provide limited connectivity. These will be insufficient to provide the bandwidth needed for their students to complete TCAP testing online, so they will probably have to make special arrangements if they are to comply with this new requirement. As it is, one of the school's two co-directors must drive a sixty-mile round trip to Carbondale every week to file reports to the state Dept. of Education. Thanks for your effort on this survey, Frank -- the gap between Secom and CenturyLink is pretty amazing.
  2. brittb Super Voter Flag
    11 years 10 months
    reply to

    Schoolyard bullies

    No school tolerates bullies any more. So why should they put up with bullies who beat up on the entire school?