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EducationSuperHighway

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Model & Strategy

EducationSuperHighway’s (ESH) mission is to close the K-12 digital divide so that every student has equal access to personalized learning, compelling curricula and great teachers. Digital learning has the power to restore America’s public schools to excellence — but only if schools have high-speed Internet access and robust Wi-Fi networks. Unfortunately, 80% of schools lack this infrastructure, thus leaving behind 40 million students. ESH is catalyzing existing resources to close this digital divide. ESH tests broadband at America’s K-12 schools, provides technical & procurement expertise and increases pricing transparency to lower cost. Using data-based advocacy, ESH maximizes the impact of the E-Rate program and facilitates the deployment of fiber and Wi-Fi in schools. ESH also catalyzed the launch of ConnectED, a Presidential initiative to upgrade the broadband in America’s K-12 schools.

At a Glance
Founded: 2012
Founder & CEO: Evan Marwell
Education
Location of work: Domestic, Northeast, West Coast, Midwest, Southwest, Southeast
http://www.educationsuperhighway.org/
EducationSuperHighway
San Francisco, CA
Internet infrastructure for America’s K-12 schools
Students working on computers
Evan Marwell
Meet Evan Marwell

Evan Marwell is the founder and CEO of EducationSuperHighway. Over the last 25 years Evan has been an entrepreneur starting companies in the telecommunications, software, hedge fund and consumer retailing industries including INFONXX (now KGB) and Criterion Capital Management. Collectively, these businesses have created thousands of jobs and generated billions of dollars of revenues and investment returns. Evan has served on the board of several for-profit and non-profit organizations and is currently the President of the Board of Trustees at the Katherine Delmar Burke School in San Francisco. At Burke’s, Evan discovered that the school’s efforts to leverage technology were being undermined by a lack of Internet infrastructure – a problem common to 80% of America’s K-12 schools. After relaying this issue to the White House, Evan was challenged to start a non-profit to upgrade the Internet infrastructure in America’s schools. A week later, he founded EducationSuperHighway and made closing the K-12 digital divide his full time mission.

IMPACT

Mission Accomplished! 99% of America’s schools are now connected to high-speed broadband.

42.3M students have been connected to high-speed broadband since 2013. The percentage of school districts meeting minimum connectivity targets has increased from 30% in 2013 to 99.2% in 2019.

99% of schools in the country now have a high-speed fiber connection, up from 71% in 2013.

The cost of Internet access has fallen 90% since 2013 from $22 per Mbps to $2.24 per Mbps in 2019.

82 governors from all 50 states partnered with ESH to upgrade all of the schools in their state.

ESH catalyzed the launch of ConnectED – a presidential initiative to upgrade the broadband in America’s K-12 schools and convinced the FCC to increase its annual investment in K-12 broadband by $2.5B per year.

EducationSuperHighway News

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  • RT @DPLeague: Thanks to @EdSuperHighway's Ellen Goldich for providing guidance to #DPLIS leaders on the @FCC's Emergency Connectivity Fund…
  • RT @CambiumNetworks: WIRELESS WORKS: EDUCATION CONNECTIVITY. Listen to our podcast as Atul Bhatnagar, Cambium and Evan Marwell, @EdSuperHig…
  • RT @FCC: You have less than a month to submit applications for the first wave of funding for the Emergency Connectivity Fund. This program…
  • Take action to connect students caught in the #homeworkgap. The Emergency Connectivity Fund helps school districts… https://t.co/PnnPDVxxwa
  • Don’t miss the 8/13 deadline to submit applications for the first wave of funding for the Emergency Connectivity Fu… https://t.co/Rkmw9edKe5
  • RT @powertofly: ⭐ PANEL HIGHLIGHT ⭐ In 15 MINS: KEYNOTE: Connecting the Unconnected - A Panel on the Importance and Future of Digital Inc…
  • Join our Emergency Connectivity Fund webinar TODAY at 10am PDT. Learn how to navigate the application process, iden… https://t.co/sg8rNZbw0F
  • Applying for the Emergency Connectivity Fund? Join our webinar on July 7 to learn how K-12 Bridge to Broadband can… https://t.co/1hhhT5Q7ME
  • Our Emergency Connectivity Fund resources help school districts navigate the application process and take action to… https://t.co/4tx1YWSMgp
  • The application filing window for the Emergency Connectivity Fund opens TODAY. Use our free tools and resources to… https://t.co/Fd6imE0qQH
  • Our Emergency Connectivity Fund resources help school districts take action to connect students who lack reliable a… https://t.co/Z6U9VbG0w3
  • The Emergency Connectivity Fund can help schools connect the 7-12 million students who fall into the #homeworkgap.… https://t.co/Y9uNYELwGw
  • The application window for the FCC’s new $7.2 billion Emergency Connectivity Fund Program will open on June 29. Sch… https://t.co/DPDl5SfbHr
  • RT @FCC: Today, the Commission announced that the Emergency Connectivity Fund application filing window will open on June 29 and close on A…
  • What technical steps should the education industry take now to prepare itself for another pandemic-like event? This… https://t.co/nsviJVdrhD
  • If you qualify, the Emergency Broadband Benefit provides a discount of up to $50 per month off your internet bill o… https://t.co/PtRQeAaNTZ
  • If you qualify for Medicaid, SNAP, the Free and Reduced-Price School Lunch Program, Lifeline, Pell Grants, or other… https://t.co/lwopVh6GU2
  • If you’re eligible for the Emergency Broadband Benefit, there are three ways to sign up. Contact a preferred partic… https://t.co/3tAZFNYVQL
  • You can apply now for the Emergency Broadband Benefit. If your household is eligible, you can receive a discount of… https://t.co/EGY6vqppYX
  • RT @K12DiveNews: #DecodingTheDivide: An estimated 29M disconnected households with school-age children remain a "known unknown" across rura…