The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) this week announced additional funding for digital student services totaling more than $77 million. The funds are being provided through the Emergency Connectivity Program and will help close the “homework gap”, a term coined by the now FCC Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel in 2012 to describe the difficulty that millions of students — particularly poor, minority and rural students — have when completing online school assignments once they leave the school campus. During the pandemic, when distance learning become the norm, this gap became more apparent and more devastating.
