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Obama Touts ConnectED During Monday Education Event

President Barack Obama Monday touted his efforts to connect U.S. schools to broadband. “We're bringing in high-speed internet into schools and libraries, reaching 20 million more students and helping teachers with digital learning,” Obama said at a high school in…

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Washington, D.C. “And coding isn’t, by the way, just for boys in Silicon Valley, so we’re investing more in getting girls and young women and young people of color and low-income students into science and engineering and technology and math.” He cited the nature of the global economy and how “jobs can go wherever they want because of the internet and because of technology.” A White House fact sheet released Monday noted the ConnectED broadband initiative that Obama invoked.