Connected Communities

Providing Affordable Housing Residents with Unfettered Access to Digital Opportunity in Massachusetts

Policy Center Education
Oct 13, 2023 Policy Center Education

Connected Communities explores strategies to close the digital divide in Massachusetts through targeted investments in affordable housing developments. Prepared in collaboration with the Massachusetts Competitive Partnership (MACP), the report builds

Mass Broadband poised to help Gateway Cities win the future

The Gateway Cities Journal

Policy Center
Sep 26, 2022 Policy Center

The Massachusetts Broadband Institute (MBI) issued a much-anticipated RFP for the Digital Equity Partnership Program last week. Drawing on resources from the state’s new Digital Equity Fund, the program will

Connecting Communities through Digital Equity

An Action Plan for State, Community, and Private and Institutional Partners

Policy Center Education
Jun 29, 2022 Policy Center Education

The COVID-19 pandemic brought much-needed attention to the digital divide and its profound implications for social and economic opportunity in our commonwealth. Across a range of sectors, public and private,

Connecting Communities through Digital Equity

Policy Center Education
Jun 17, 2022 Policy Center Education

The Massachusetts Competitive Partnership and MassINC invite you to the release of Connecting Communities through Digital Equity: An Action Plan for State, Community, and Private and Institutional Partners. Please join us

Harnessing the civic energy ARPA has unlocked

Gateway Cities Journal

Policy Center
Oct 8, 2021 Policy Center

As they work to apportion the state’s $5 billion ARPA allocation, legislators have conscientiously collected input from thousands of Massachusetts residents. We’ve compiled our thoughts for investing ARPA funds in a manner that recognizes the post-pandemic challenges and opportunities Gateway Cities face.

Gateway Cities battle the digital divide

Gateway Cities Journal

Aug 3, 2021

At this point last summer, Gateway City educators were furiously at work trying to ensure that all students would have computers and reliable internet service when school resumed in the fall. Their herculean efforts demonstrated that we can temporarily narrow the divide, but a lot of work remains to find durable solutions to this multifaceted problem.

K-12 Learning Reflects Racial Inequity

A Survey of K-12 Parents in Massachusetts

Polling Group Education
Nov 19, 2020 Polling Group Education

A few months into the 2020-2021 school year, questions about the success of online, hybrid and in-person school are top of mind for parents, teachers, policymakers and – well, just

Closing language barriers and the digital divide in Gateway Cities

Gateways Podcast Episode 57

Policy Center
May 7, 2020 Policy Center

Examining two obstacles preventing many members of our Commonwealth from accessing what they need during the coronavirus crisis.

Gateway Cities at the center of the digital divide in Massachusetts

Policy Center
May 5, 2020 Policy Center

The deep digital divide in Massachusetts is one of many glaring inequities brought into focus by the pandemic. Before schools were hastily forced into remote learning mode, the problem was largely perceived as rural.

Providing Affordable Housing Residents with Unfettered Access to Digital Opportunity in Massachusetts

The Gateway Cities Journal

An Action Plan for State, Community, and Private and Institutional Partners

Gateway Cities Journal

Gateway Cities Journal

A Survey of K-12 Parents in Massachusetts

Gateways Podcast Episode 57

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