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“Michigan Moonshot” seeks to reduce rural academic disparity by expanding broadband access

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October 23, 2019

More than 380,000 Michigan households with K-12 students lack access to broadband internet.

That’s according to Pierrette Widmeyer, director of communications for the Ann Arbor nonprofit Merit Network, which is partnering on a new initiative to address the academic achievement gap between students with home internet access and those without.

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