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This wi-fi-enabled school bus, seen at an apartment complex on Thursday, March 27, 2020, in Winnsboro, S.C., is one of many being sent to rural and lower-income areas around South Carolina to help students with distance learning during the new coronavirus outbreak. (AP Photo/Meg Kinnard)

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School shutdowns raise stakes of digital divide for students
March 30, 2020 9:17 a.m.

School shutdowns raise stakes of digital divide for students

WINNSBORO, S.C. (AP) — Students struggling to get online in a rural South Carolina county received a boost last week with the arrival of six buses equipped with Wi-Fi, some of the hundreds the state has rolled out since schools were closed by the coronavirus outbreak.