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Rural North Carolina Families Struggle With Online Access for School-Age Children

This story was originally published by Carolina Public Press. When school started in Beaufort County in August, Chocowinity resident Dana Heath Darden’s sons signed onto remote classes using school-issued Chromebooks and hot spot routers. The Dardens don’t have Wi-Fi because it’s prohibitively expensive for the family, so the hot spot was supposed to help the kids […]