It\u2019s a homerun heard around the Big Apple. <\/p>\n
NYC public schools are getting brand-new laptops with the help of T-Mobile \u2014 Mayor Eric Adams<\/a> announced Monday alongside Yankees stud Jazz Chisholm Jr.<\/a><\/p>\n The city is donating a whopping 350,000 Chromebooks to underserved K-12 students \u2014 which will be equipped with free LTE and 5G network provided by phone carrier T-Mobile in an effort to \u201cBridge the Digital Divide.\u201d <\/p>\n Mayor Eric Adams announced that 350,000 Chromebooks would be given to NYC students equipped with 5G LTE network. James Messerschmidt<\/p>\n \u201c350,000 students in 1,700 schools will receive Chromebooks with 5G internet access and optimized educational programs for free. That\u2019s 350,000 future writers, teachers, mathematicians in the making,\u201d Adams said Monday at DeWitt Clinton High School in The Bronx. <\/p>\n He was joined by DOE Chancellor Melissa Aviles-Ramos and Matthew Fraser, his chief technology officer.<\/p>\n The devices will be doled out first to schools with device coverage needs \u2014 then to students in temporary housing and high-poverty areas.<\/p>\n The Chromebook will come equipped with 5G LTE network provided by T-Mobile. James Messerschmidt<\/p>\n \u201cWe\u2019re committing to completing the distribution of these devices across the school year. So by the end of this school year, every single student will have received a device,\u201d said Aviles-Ramos. <\/p>\n The commitment follows a larger February agreement between the Adams administration and T-Mobile \u2014 in which Hizzoner designated the company as a major wireless carrier in the Big Apple in exchange for discounted cellular service for city employees.<\/p>\n The money saved on city-issued cell plans is being used to fund the new Chromebooks, which will cost $327 million, including capital costs and operational expenses for four years, according to Adams\u2019 office.<\/p>\n Yankees star Jazz Chisholm Jr., attended Monday\u2019s announcement to show his support. James Messerschmidt<\/p>\n Yankees all-star second baseman Chisholm Jr. stood beside the mayor Monday to voice his support for the program.<\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019ve been in New York for two years now, and this is like the seventh school I\u2019ve visited, and this is the seventh time we\u2019re doing this,\u201d said Chisholm, who was born in the Bahamas.<\/p>\n \u201cSo I love giving back. I love giving back to the community because this reminds me of where I grew up.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It\u2019s a homerun heard around the Big Apple. NYC public schools are getting brand-new laptops with the help…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":211090,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,17452,5289,9138,5248,405,403,2228,5226,5225,5228,5227,40852,67,586,132,5230,68,1154,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-211089","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-department-of-education","10":"tag-eric-adams","11":"tag-jazz-chisholm","12":"tag-metro","13":"tag-new-york","14":"tag-new-york-city","15":"tag-new-york-yankees","16":"tag-newyork","17":"tag-newyorkcity","18":"tag-ny","19":"tag-nyc","20":"tag-public-schools","21":"tag-united-states","22":"tag-united-states-of-america","23":"tag-unitedstates","24":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","25":"tag-us","26":"tag-us-news","27":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115170709690849456","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211089","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=211089"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211089\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/211090"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=211089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=211089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=211089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}