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Gov. Cox vetoed giving rural students — like he once was — Wi-Fi on school bus rides. Here’s his explanation.

The bill’s sponsor said it was meant to give rural students a head start on homework, which “now is put on Chromebooks and put online.”

(Meg Kinnard | AP) A Wi-Fi-enabled school bus is seen at an apartment complex in Winnsboro, S.C., where such buses were sent to rural and low-income areas during the COVID-19 pandemic to help distance-learning students access the internet. In Utah, Gov. Spencer Cox vetoed a plan to offer Wi-Fi access on rural school buses.