{"id":847,"date":"2021-03-15T10:46:31","date_gmt":"2021-03-15T09:46:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/03\/15\/attending-school-at-a-fast-food-spot-12m-us-students-lack-internet-a-year-into-pandemic\/"},"modified":"2021-03-15T10:46:31","modified_gmt":"2021-03-15T09:46:31","slug":"attending-school-at-a-fast-food-spot-12m-us-students-lack-internet-a-year-into-pandemic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/03\/15\/attending-school-at-a-fast-food-spot-12m-us-students-lack-internet-a-year-into-pandemic\/","title":{"rendered":"Attending school at a fast-food spot: 12m US students lack internet a year into pandemic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From a lack of broadband in Appalachia to obsolete devices distributed to poor urban families, the absence of reliable internet has meant a year of lost learning <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>This series was reported by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.the74million.org\/\">The74Million.org<\/a>, a nonprofit education news site, in partnership with the Guardian<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The day her teenage daughter\u2019s hair began to fall out, Eva Garcia knew the stress had become too much.<\/p>\n<p>For months, Kimberly Son Garcia had been getting bumped off Zoom classes and missing deadlines because of slow internet access. Until November, the Los Angeles family had grabbed wifi from the parking lot of Carl\u2019s Jr, a local fast-food chain, or through a school-provided hotspot. After shopping for her own internet service and rejecting bundles she couldn\u2019t afford, Garcia finally signed up for a $30-a-month plan from Spectrum.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2021\/mar\/15\/us-students-online-access-internet-pandemic-virtual-learning\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/923e716d7376feab1849d3a2f4d1bdc41b501328\/0_122_3517_2110\/master\/3517.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=042f3e82f2ef3eab5e49ea27a3d33e6f\" title=\"Attending school at a fast-food spot: 12m US students lack internet a year into pandemic\" \/>From a lack of broadband in Appalachia to obsolete devices distributed to poor urban families, the absence of reliable internet has meant a year of lost learning<br \/>\nThis series was reported by The74Million.org, a nonprofit education news site, in partnership with the Guardian<br \/>\nThe day her teenage daughter\u2019s hair began to fall out, Eva Garcia knew the stress had become too much.<br \/>\nFor months, Kimberly Son Garcia had been getting bumped off Zoom classes and missing deadlines because of slow internet access. Until November, the Los Angeles family had grabbed wifi from the parking lot of Carl\u2019s Jr, a local fast-food chain, or through a school-provided hotspot. After shopping for her own internet service and rejecting bundles she couldn\u2019t afford, Garcia finally signed up for a $30-a-month plan from Spectrum. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From a lack of broadband in Appalachia to obsolete devices distributed to poor urban families, the absence of reliable internet has meant a year of lost learning This series was reported by The74Million.org, a nonprofit education news site, in partnership with the Guardian The day her teenage daughter\u2019s hair began to fall out, Eva Garcia &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/03\/15\/attending-school-at-a-fast-food-spot-12m-us-students-lack-internet-a-year-into-pandemic\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Attending school at a fast-food spot: 12m US students lack internet a year into pandemic<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":848,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/847"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=847"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/847\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/848"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}