By Emily McFarlan, Beacon News
Tens of thousands of children throughout Aurora and the Fox Valley now can access the Internet for less than $10 a month, thanks to new Comcast’s Internet Essentials program. Internet Essentials aims to “close the digital divide” for low-income families with students in schools in Comcast’s greater Chicago region, the Internet/cable/phone service provider announced earlier this month. That includes all families whose children receive free lunches in the National School Lunch program in Aurora, as well as those in communities in surrounding school districts. In East Aurora alone, more than 68 percent of students can be expected to qualify. “The digital divide is extremely important to close,” said East Aurora School District spokesman Clayton Muhammad. “We are becoming increasingly aware of how important it is for children to have access to technology and the internet.”
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