1 For Farmington Municipal Schools, it is the best-connected of times and the worst- connected. The K-12 school district in northern New Mexico has 18 schools that serve more than 10,000 students. “All our schools are within Farmington, New Mexico, city limits,” explains Robert Emerson, the district’s CTO. “Our options for internet connectivity have expanded dramatically over the past few years, and we now have great internet, with fiber running between all our schools.” At the same time, students are expected to complete homework on school-issued devices, and a significant number live in the very rural outskirts of Farmington. “Our district extends north to the Colorado border and south about 60 miles, into the Navajo reservation,” Emerson adds. “Once you get outside the city limi

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