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Small Kansas Town and Google Partner for Wi-Fi on School Buses
On Sept 20, Federal Communications Commission Chairman Ajit Pai and other dignitaries came to Council Grove (KS), population 2,079, to celebrate a budding program to equip rural school transportation with Wi-Fi service. They call it “Rolling Study Hall” and the kids love it because they can do their Web-based assignments on the long trip to and from school. The Wi-Fi equipped buses were made possible by a partnership between the Morris County school system, the national Consortium for School Networking and Google, said Superintendent Aron Dody. The Wi-Fi equipped buses carry 165 students da