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Board pushes tribe for fixes after unreliable internet at new Rosebud Elementary
Summary
During a school board meeting, members raised repeated outages at the new Rosebud Elementary that have left phones and internet offline during storms; the board agreed to invite tribal leaders and IT staff to discuss a more reliable solution.
Todd County School District 66-1 board members on an evening meeting pressed for a meeting with tribal leaders after repeated internet and phone outages at the new Rosebud Elementary School, saying the outages disrupt instruction and phone service during storms.
Board members heard a detailed update from Yancey and Richard George on wireless connectivity to the new school. Yancey said the connection uses a long wireless bridge from a tower near a Mormon church behind Soldier Hill to the new school’s bus garage and that the bridge has been “out of alignment” and sensitive to precipitation. "Anytime we get a little bit of snow, that thing goes offline," Yancey said, adding that since the district connected the site around Dec. 27 the new school had lost connectivity on five days out of the roughly 18-day period he referenced. He said the internet…
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