WHEN THE CORONAVIRUS prompted the swift closures of school districts across the country and education officials began devising distance learning plans, the technology team for Charleston’s public schools knew they had a problem: the roughly 4,000 students in their district without internet at home and no way to access online instruction.
“As a district, we do not practice e-learning a whole lot,” Thomas Nawrocki, executive director of information technology at 50,000-student Charleston County School District, says. “Once they started talking about lessons at home, and teachers sending lessons via Google Drive or doing Google Meets, we had to act pretty quick.”
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