”Robust” Wi-Fi networks are critical to schools and...

"Robust” Wi-Fi networks are critical to schools and libraries and funding such wireless connections should be a focus of the agency as it expands the E-rate program, FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler said in a blog post. Wheeler told of a visit he made to Robinson Secondary School in Fairfax, Virginia, on Thursday. The visit demonstrated that Wi-Fi to each student’s desk “is the essential component of interactive, personalized instruction tailored to each student’s strengths and weaknesses,” Wheeler wrote Friday (http://fcc.us/1mxw729). While almost 60 percent of U.S. schools in America lack “sufficient” Wi-Fi, “far too many schools have no Wi-Fi at all.”