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Families can pick up hot spots at the Montezuma-Cortez School District Re-1 office or at their children\u2019s schools.<\/span>The Journal file<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>\n

Montezuma-Cortez School District RE-1 still has hot spots available for families at each of its schools, said Angela Sauk, former district grant manager and current principal at Lewis and Pleasant View Elementary.<\/p>\n

The district accumulated 500 hot spots through the Connecting Colorado Students Grant<\/a>. They will help link students to the virtual world through February.<\/p>\n

After that point, the district hopes to extend the program to enable remote internet access through the end of the school year with other federal grants, she said.<\/p>\n

Parents just need to fill out a form, and can pick up hot spots at the district office or at their child\u2019s school, she said.<\/p>\n

The district provided more than one hot spot to families with multiple students.<\/p>\n

\u201cI have heard nothing but positive feedback from parents,\u201d Sauk said.<\/p>\n

She said the district was able to solve connectivity issues in areas that \u201cin the past historically were not getting service.\u201d<\/p>\n

RE-1 partnered with T-Mobile to do this, as the wireless network operator had already embarked on its own initiative: Project 10Million<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe piggybacked off of their 10Million project,\u201d Sauk said.<\/p>\n

T-mobile\u2019s project provided hot spots and internet access for \u201chomework help,\u201d supplying a certain amount of data. The district covered the remaining costs to provide unlimited access for families, she said.<\/p>\n

The district received two disbursements through the program. A federal grant was given in the fall, and a state grant in January.<\/p>\n

Under the state grant, the Ute Mountain Ute Tribe was provided a year of free internet access for families with students.<\/p>\n

This year, the RE-1 school district has released instruction that Google Classroom will be used as a platform for supporting student education in quarantine.<\/p>\n

At an Aug. 17 school district meeting, Assistant Superintendent Lis Richard said fewer than five families chose remote learning for their children this school year.<\/p>\n

While less than 1% of students were enrolled in online learning at that time, Richard said the district anticipated that number to climb to anywhere from 5% to 10%.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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