WASHINGTON DC – Long before the COVID-19 pandemic forced millions of children to attend school via the internet, Jessica Rosenworcel was sounding the alarm about US students who lacked access to broadband.

Rosenworcel, who has served as acting chair of the Federal Communications Commission over the past 10 months, coined the term “homework gap” in a 2014 Miami Herald op-ed to describe families with school-age children who lack broadband access at home and how that lack of access means students couldn’t do homework assigned online.

And with that she brought attention to a major problem for families, particularly in low-income and Black and brown communities and in rural areas.

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