President Obama will announce Wednesday an expansion of an initiative to bring high-speed Internet connectivity to almost all of America\'s schools, recruiting superintendents to develop and implement sweeping plans to set up Internet infrastructure and tailor it to classroom needs.
Obama will announce the enlargement of ConnectED, a program announced last year, at a White House conference on digital learning, the White House said. The plan is part of a broader White House strategy to upgrade America\'s ever-changing Internet infrastructure as one would a system of aging highways or bridges. ConnectED, which Obama announced at a North Carolina school last year, aims to put high-speed broadband and wireless Internet in 99 percent of America\'s schools by 2017. The initiative involves a significant private-sector component; companies have committed more than $2 billion toward helping upgrade internet infrastructure in schools. |
