Craft Category: Artifacts

This report created by Thru-Ed for Ector County Independent School District is part of a project to explore what options are available to improve broadband access to the residents of Ector County. This baseline report provides a snapshot of the state of home connectivity in Ector County in June 2020.

This report created by Thru-Ed for Ector County Independent School District was part of a project to explore what options were available to improve broadband access to the residents of Ector County. This report illustrates national case studies and established a common vocabulary around home connectivity.

Ector County Independent School District Superintendent Scott Muri joins other community partners to announce the district’s partnership with SpaceX to provide internet through satellites for rural households.

Ector County Independent School District Superintendent Scott Muri shares how the district forged the first school district partnership with SpaceX to provide internet via satellite for district families in rural areas that previously had no internet options or prohibitively costly options.

Thirty-nine percent of families in Ector County did not have access to the internet at the start of the pandemic with many in this rural county not having any options. Ector County Independent School District Superintendent Scott Muri shares how the pandemic accelerated making Wi-Fi universally available.