With glass fiber connections: Offenbach schools makes digital

The Offenbach school head of Department Paul-Gerhard Weiß (FDP), has already passed long before the start of the Corona pandemic, it is the quickest way to all

With glass fiber connections: Offenbach schools makes digital

The Offenbach school head of Department Paul-Gerhard Weiß (FDP), has already passed long before the start of the Corona pandemic, it is the quickest way to all of the schools in the city with fiber optic connections to equip. So the basis for a contemporary teaching should be placed with digital tools. After a long time and came violently between countries and the Federal government's controversial digital Pact, with a volume of five billion euros for all German länder now yet come into existence, can be followed according to the connecting schools to the Internet the next step.

Jochen Remmert

airport editor and correspondent of the Rhine-Main-Süd.

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It's about the equipment of the schools with presentation equipment for classrooms, Tablets, Laptops and the like, as well as W-Lan for the schools, i.e. wireless local area networks. Offenbach has a head start, as the city has already provided at his own cost, all schools with a fiber connection that offers maximum transmission speeds in the network. "Therefore, all of the Offenbach schools are well prepared for all foreseeable digital teaching formats," says White.

in any case, the city has created the requirement for the digital devices that you can purchase now from the share of the 372 million euros, the Hessian from the Five-billion-to-digital Pact of the Federal government gets. Offenbach had applied early money from the funding program digital Pact of Hesse, and as the first school in the state of Hesse at all approval notices issued in the amount of 3.37 million euros for the equipment of schools with wirelessly networks.

850,000 Euro for W-Lan at three schools, which will be rehabilitated in Addition to reported again. A total of Offenbach expects 9,67 million euros from the digital Pact. 2.4 million of these will have to muster up the city, however, as local authorities ' own share of themselves.

Date Of Update: 15 July 2020, 12:19