The city and Dallas ISD have a plan to extend internet access to parts of the city and school district that get no or little service now. That’s hundreds of thousands of people.
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The city and school district propose spending $13.5 million to build a 100-mile fiber backbone that would cost $ 1 million a year to maintain.
The goal of the investment is help students learning at home and to created more opportunities to help students who are behind catch up, especially given pandemic learning losses.
The report says an even bigger fiber backbone could reach even more unserved homes, but would cost up to $50 million.
Take a look at a summary of the report below.
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