Reardan-Edwall School District earns emergency grant

REARDAN—The Reardan-Edwall School District was granted an emergency connectivity federal grant totaling just over $700,000, the district announced late last week.

The funding is the first the district applied for in the federal grant passed titled the Emergency Connectivity Fund to help students around the country with limited or no Internet access receive a satellite connection. The total funding set aside by the government is $7.17 billion for districts around the country.

The emergency connection will only last through the end of the school year, and superintendent Eric Sobotta predicted th...