EducationSuperHighway is a United States

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that directs research and provides advocacy and consultation services to states and school districts in order to connect American public school classrooms to high-speed internet. The organization was founded by Evan Marwell in 2012 with the goal to ensure all American classrooms are connected with the

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-recommended minimum speed of 100 kbit/s per student. In 2013, EducationSuperHighway raised $9 million in funding led by

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CEO

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's Startup:Education fund, with additional funding coming from the

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. The organization has published a yearly State of the States report that compiles data from the FCC's

E-Rate E-Rate is the commonly used name for the Schools and Libraries Program of the Universal Service Fund, which is administered by the Universal Service Administrative Company (USAC) under the direction of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). ...

program and helps to connect schools with the funding offered by ERate. In 2015, the organization raised an additional $20 million from Zuckerberg and his wife

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. That same year, EducationSuperHighway's founder and CEO was recognized by the ''

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'' as Visionary of the Year for the organization's work.

References

{{reflist Educational organizations based in the United States Organizations based in San Francisco 2012 establishments in California