FCC weighs ‘Lifeline’ for low-income kids without Internet

Statescoop: Melissa Baranic is trying to usher her fourth-graders into the modern age with computers.

What’s available at Oak Street Elementary School in Inglewood, California, is not much: Out of 38 laptops at the school, about 10 of them actually work if the network doesn’t fizzle out, but at least the children’s hands touch keyboards and their eyes become accustomed to screens.

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