The Alabama Broadband
Connectivity for Students, or ABC for Students, is an initiative from Governor
Ivy to provide home internet access to low income families throughout
Alabama. MCPSS qualifies as Community Eligibility Provision (CEP)
district which allows all of our students to receive both free breakfast and
lunch. Based on this determining factor, being a CEP district, vouchers
being mailed this week to all students' home addresses in our district.
However, the vouchers will ask for households who do not qualify based on
income not to submit the voucher to allow the funds to be used for those
families in need of internet connectivity.
As of Friday, it was our understanding that the vouchers had not been received by our district
parents. However, they may have arrived over the weekend considering that
fact that mail is being delayed all over the country. Below
is a sample of the letter that is being mailed and the steps that parents will
need to take once it arrives.
