Scott Stringer Releases Report Showing Embarrassingly Slow Internet in New York's Public Schools
By Raillan Brooks
Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer released a report yesterday claiming that 75 percent of New York City's public schools have Internet connections that operate at 10 megabits or less. Schools' broadband speeds must be 100 times that by 2020, according to the Obama administration's National Broadband Plan. Of the schools with the slowest speeds, the majority are clustered in, you guessed it, some of the city's poorest neighborhoods.
Stringer's report details the embarrassingly slow speeds students at the city's public schools have to contend with when using Facebook or beefing on Twitter during passing period.
But it also plunges a knife into the Department of Education's heart, laying the blame for the slow Internet squarely on their shoulders.
DOE shot back at the report, pointing out that they throttle Internet connection speeds, because running at maximum capacity is inefficient.
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