Ohio House Bill 4 - paving the way for Ohio high school students to better leverage broadband technology for their education

Have you heard of the Distance Learning Pilot Project? It’s also known as Ohio House Bill (HB) 4 - and it’s paving the way for Ohio high school students to better leverage broadband technology for their education.

Twenty-eight percent of schools in Ohio have the broadband capacity of a T-1 line, i.e., 1.5 Mbps or less. HB-4 would provide those schools with more broadband, to enable students to take classes via live, interactive video. This technology would bring Advanced Placement (AP) and foreign language classes to many students that wouldn’t have that opportunity otherwise - such as students in rural areas...