Broadband access is more important than ever, and the public agrees

broadband-internetU.S. public opinion isn’t too positive when it comes to technology in the nation’s schools.

Feb. 4 poll results from the bipartisan Leading Education by Advancing Digital (LEAD) Commission reveal that voters–both parents and nonparents–gave a “C” grade to the state of technology in U.S. schools.

“Parents and nonparents prove to be pretty intensely concerned about where classroom technology is in America today,” said Joel Benenson, president of the Benenson Strategy Group, which led the survey.

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