Starting Wednesday the Cobb County School District will roll out 27 buses equipped with WiFi hotspots to assist students who need Internet connectivity while all-remote learning continues.
Those buses will be going to 23 separate locations and the buses will be available for Internet use 7 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday.
The district said in an announcement Tuesday that funding is coming from the Georgia Department of Education.
The locations include the following apartment complexes in the Wheeler High School cluster:
- Westminster Square (2401 Windy Hill Road)—Wheeler, East Cobb MS, Brumby ES;
- Riverstone (899 Powers Ferry Road)—Wheeler, East Cobb MS, Eastvalley ES;
- Cumberland Crossing (1981 Hidden Glen Drive)—Wheeler, East Cobb MS, Powers Ferry ES;
- The Villas at East Cobb (1049 Powers Ferry Road)—Wheeler, East Cobb MS, Eastvalley ES;
- Landry at East Cobb dog park (2575 Delk Road)—Wheeler, East Cobb MS, Eastvalley ES;
- Stratford Ridge (2560 Delk Road)—Wheeler, East Cobb MS, Eastvalley ES.
See the full list of bus locations here.
The district said that “the goal of the bus wifi program is to serve the maximum number of students who currently may not be participating in remote classes due to limited or no internet connectivity. Ideal locations around the county were determined by examining CTLS use and access.”
The district said it has distributed more than 300 WiFi hotspots to families and nearly 40,000 devices, with 38,000 requests for devices in the current school year alone
About 35,000 of those devices have been picked up.
The district has provided connectivity instructions for Windows 10 laptops, Chromebooks, and Apple tablets and phones.
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