Huntley School District to Get Free Internet

A press release from Lt. Gov. Evelyn Sanguinetti:

Lieutenant Governor Evelyn Sanguinetti announces Sprint’s expansion of ConnectED program

The initiative provides free Internet access to 17 school districts in Illinois

CHICAGO – Lieutenant Governor Evelyn Sanguinetti joined Sprint today to announce an expansion of the ConnectED program, which provides free Internet access to 17 schools districts in Illinois.

The announcement was made this morning at West Leyden High School in Northlake. Joining the Lieutenant Governor at the announcement were Jim Mills, Sprint President of Illinois and Wisconsin, Nick Polyak, Superintendent of Leyden High School District, and two students from the district.

Evelyn Sanguinetti at a press conference to announce the free internet service to

Evelyn Sanguinetti at a press conference to announce the free internet service to seventeen Illinois school districts, including Huntley’s.

“Without internet access, millions of children, especially minority students living in low-income communities, would be left behind.

“This is an important step to close the digital divide,” said Lieutenant Governor Evelyn Sanguinetti.

“Thank you to Sprint for their leadership and generosity in helping us close that divide.”

ConnectEd is a White House initiative launched in 2013 to help schools throughout the country get free access to the Internet.

Last year, Sprint provided $3 million in free broadband service.

This year, Sprint expanded its donation to $8 million, benefiting 4,200 students in Illinois.

These are the school districts that will benefit from Sprint’s donations: Leyden High School District 212, Hillside School District 93, Maine Township High School District 207, Township High School District 214, Glenbard Township High Schools District 87, Herscher CUSD2, La Grange District 105, Schaumburg Community Consolidated District 54, Consolidated High School District 230, Wheaton Warrenville CUSD 200, Kildeer Countryside CCSD 96, East Alton-Wood River SD 14, Community High School District 99, Huntley Community School District 158, Elmhurst CUSD 205, Skokie School District 73.5, and Oak Park & River Forest SD 20.


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Huntley School District to Get Free Internet — 10 Comments

  1. “Without internet access, millions of children, especially minority students living in low-income communities, would be left behind.”

    Huntley is certainly an example of a low income community. What a joke.

    How much are taxpayers really paying for this ‘free’ service?

    But it’s for the children, right?

  2. The Lt. Governor frames this as helping the low-income communities to close the “digital divide”.

    Yet, as I look at the list of the districts benefiting from this program, I would be hard pressed to categorize ANY of these districts as “low-income communities”.

    Schaumburg?

    Arlington Hts?

    KILDEER??

    These are some of the wealthiest communities in the state.

    All they’re missing is Lake Forest and Kenilworth.

    What is the real story behind this?

    Because it certainly has absolutely nothing to do with the concept of “digital divide”.

  3. It’s just the power of tracking everybody at all times.

    Selling you more evil as something good that we ALL want!

  4. So what kind of savings to us TAX payers get ?

    off our TAX Bills?

    is the question here?

  5. The idea is this technology would not have otherwise been purchased, at least right now.

    Whether or not that is the case depends on the specific situation.

  6. The way obtaining freebies works in general is each school district has a grant writer that submits grant applications throughout the year to both to both public and private sector organizations..

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