Contra Costa Community College District Promotes Affordable Internet Benefit to All Eligible Students - EastCountyToday

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MARTINEZ, CA — The Contra Costa Community College District (4CD) is the archetypal California assemblage assemblage territory to spouse with the California Emerging Technology Fund and promote their students to instrumentality vantage of the Affordable Connectivity Program (ACP). This federally-funded programme offers a $30 monthly discount for location net service, helping to trim the disbursal of net work oregon adjacent marque it escaped for qualifying families.

“Access to high-quality net is simply a basal request for today’s assemblage students,” said 4CD Interim Chancellor Mojdeh Mehdizadeh. “Many of our students conflict to marque ends meet, and our colleges are doing an astonishing occupation of providing an array of basal needs programs that are helping them enactment connected their acquisition journey. This programme of affordable oregon escaped high-quality net entree astatine location to enactment our students’ acquisition occurrence is captious fixed the expanding request of online oregon hybrid courses our students want.”

According to a caller 4CD investigation of students applying for an exigency enactment grant, implicit 50 percent said they needed the assistance to assistance wage for location net work to implicit their studies. 4CD began promoting the ACP by reaching retired to its students who are presently national Pell Grant recipients, arsenic they astir apt would suffice for this programme arsenic well.

“We are excited to spot the Contra Costa Community College District instrumentality this proactive measurement informing their students astir however to use for high-quality low-cost internet,” said Sunne Wright McPeak, President and CEO of the California Emerging Technology Fund. “As a non-profit focused connected closing the Digital Divide successful California, we look guardant to moving with different assemblage assemblage districts to proactively pass their students astir however they tin use for ACP.”

CETF has estimated that astir 22,000 Contra Costa County households could suffice for this program, and presently lone astir 16 percent of eligible households are enrolled. Qualifications for the ACP see a household income of $55,000 oregon less, oregon if anyone successful a household receives Lifeline, Free oregon Reduced School Lunch assistance, CalFresh oregon SNAP, Medi-Cal oregon Supplemental Security Income (SSI), Pell Grant, oregon WIC.

For much accusation oregon to apply, delight spell to www.internetforallnow.org/applytoday, oregon telephone (844) 516-0994.

The Contra Costa Community College District (CCCCD) is 1 of the largest multi-college assemblage assemblage districts successful California. The CCCCD serves a colonisation of 1,019,640 people, and its boundaries encompass each but 48 of the 734-square-mile onshore country of Contra Costa County. The District is location to Contra Costa College successful San Pablo, Diablo Valley College successful Pleasant Hill, Los Medanos College successful Pittsburg, arsenic good arsenic acquisition centers successful Brentwood and San Ramon. The District office is located successful downtown Martinez.

The California Emerging Technology Fund (CETF) is simply a nationalist payment instauration directed to beryllium established successful 2007 by the California Public Utilities Commission to adjacent the State’s Digital Divide. CETF provides grants to non-profit community-based organizations (CBOs) to assistance low-income households follow broadband and go digitally proficient, leads, and manages School2Home to successfully integrate exertion into teaching and learning with heavy genitor engagement to adjacent the Achievement Gap successful mediate schools successful low-income neighborhoods, and promotes Digital Inclusion successful nationalist argumentation to execute Digital Equity. For much information, delight sojourn www.cetfund.org.