Verizon Foundation President Joins Government, Silicon Valley Leaders to Outline Technology Strategies for America's Schools

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Verizon Foundation President Joins Government, Silicon Valley Leaders to Outline Technology Strategies for America s Schools Stresses Importance of Broadband Technology in Expanding Educational Opportunities for Students MOUNTAIN VIEW,... More

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Verizon Foundation President Joins Government, Silicon Valley Leaders to Outline Technology Strategies for America s Schools Stresses Importance of Broadband Technology in Expanding Educational Opportunities for Students MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. - At a conference on education in the digital age, attended by the chairman of the Federal Communications Commission and leading education and technology executives, Verizon Foundation President Patrick Gaston stressed the importance of broadband technology in expanding educational opportunities for students. "Verizon s broadband technology can play a key role in providing solutions to large societal issues, such as education," Gaston said. "Broadband technology can help level the playing field to ensure that students -- whether they go to school in a suburb, an inner city or rural America -- have access to world-class educational resources, putting them in better position to succeed in the classroom today and the workplac Less