Dade Hayes Finance EditorWith many U.S. schools in distance-learning mode due to COVID-19, Comcast has announced a newly expanded program aiming to get low-income students online.The Internet Essentials Partnership Program, which began as a response to the pandemic in the spring, is aimed at helping kindergarten through 12th grade students connect to the internet from home.
Since 2011, Comcast’s Internet Essentials offering has offered internet access for $9.95 a month. The company says it is the nation’s top low-income internet adoption program, with millions of connections to date.In its initial form, the partnership program has signed up more than 70 schools across the U.S., getting more than 200,000 students online in Chicago, Atlanta,.
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