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According to St. Johns County Public Schools, teachers are pinpointing students who need this support to provide them paper copies of assignments.
The school district ordered 4,000 T-Mobile hotspots primarily for students using their EmpowerED program.
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According to schools spokesperson Christina Langston, T-Mobile reported that they have over 100,000 devices on backorder. She tells Action News Jax that with the online surge in education nationwide, T-Mobile has seen over 130,000 orders for hotspots in the last few weeks. St. Johns County Public Schools expects a partial delivery from its order to arrive next week.
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