{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://case.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=785", "Case Announces More Than $72 Million In Federal COVID-19 Assistance Funding Received To Help Hawai\u2019i Students Learn Online At Home", "2022-03-10", "2022", "2022-03", "Democrat", "House", "HI", "Ed Case", "C001055", "case.house.gov", "case", "https://case.house.gov/news/documentquery.aspx?DocumentTypeID=27&Page=22", "scraper", "(Honolulu, HI) \u2013 Congressman Ed Case (HI-01) announced today that, one year after he and the majority of his Congressional colleagues passed the American Rescue Plan, the Hawai\u02bbi State Department of Education, the Hawai\u02bbi State Public Library System and eight schools in his First Congressional District have received a total of more than $72 million from the Federal Communications Commission\u2019s (FCC) Emergency Connectivity Fund Program (ECF).\n\n\u201cThe ECF program helps schools and libraries ensure that students can connect to the internet at home, allowing them to take advantage of online learning and do their homework,\u201d said Case.\n\nKnown as the \u201chomework gap\u201d or the \u201cdigital divide\u201d, students who lack access to the internet at home often fall behind their peers as curriculums and educational opportunities rely more and more on the ability to conduct online research and connect to the web.\n\n\u201cThe COVID-19 pandemic laid bare what was already true - that with educational tools, homework, and opportunities increasingly online, keiki without home internet access are often left without the basics needed to succeed,\u201d said Case. \u201cThis critical funding, made possible by our American Rescue Plan, has helped ensure digital equity especially for those Hawai\u2019i children who don\u2019t have the equipment or internet access necessary to stay connected and get their work done.\u201d\n\nThe ECF Program helps cover costs of laptop and tablet computers, Wi-Fi hotspots, modems, routers, and broadband connectivity purchases for off-campus use by students, school staff, and library patrons.\n\nThe schools and departments in Hawaii\u2019s First Congressional District that have received the ECF Program funding in the past year include:\n\n\u00b7 Hawai\u02bbi State Department of Education $71,520,353\n\n\u00b7 Dreamhouse Ewa Beach Charter School $29,400\n\n\u00b7 H\u0101lau K\u016b M\u0101na Public Charter School $57,855\n\n\u00b7 Hawai\u02bbi State Public Library System $119,331\n\n\u00b7 Hawai\u02bbi Technology Academy $182,475\n\n\u00b7 Holy Nativity School $47,400\n\n\u00b7 Mary, Star of the Sea $41,526\n\n\u00b7 Mid-Pacific Institute $398,829\n\n\u00b7 School for Examining Essential Questions\n\nof Sustainability Public Charter School $1,960\n\n\u00b7 St. Andrews Schools $19,812\n\nAnother major Congressional initiative that Case supported, the $1.2 trillion bipartisan infrastructure package enacted last November, includes a $65 billion generational reinvestment in broadband, with at least $100 million to Hawai\u2019i and substantially more possible in competitive grants.\n\nCase will discuss the status of Hawai\u2019i broadband and digital equity and how best to maximize federal resources to advance connectivity and utilization at an upcoming Facebook Live session on Wednesday, March 16th, Noon Hawai\u2019i time, with guests Burt Lum, the state Strategy Officer in the Hawai\u02bbi Broadband and Digital Equity Office and David Miyashiro, the Founding Executive Director of HawaiiKidsCAN, at (https://Facebook.com/RepEdCase).\n\n###", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-08T02:06:17Z"]], "columns": ["url", "title", "date", "year", "month", "party", "chamber", "state", "member_name", "bioguide_id", "domain", "scraper", "source", "date_source", "text", "has_text", "collected_at", "updated_at"], "primary_keys": ["url"], "primary_key_values": ["https://case.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=785"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 1.4423280954360962, "source": "dwillis/congress-press", "source_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press", "license": "MIT", "license_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press/blob/main/LICENSE"}