Super-Fast Internet For Virginia Schools

Ars Technica has a story up entitled Virginia puts schools on high-fiber diet with broadband funds.  Tom Perriello announced in a press conference that Virginia K-12 schools will be getting more than twenty million dollars in federal funding in order to lay over 500 miles of new fiber optic internet cable.  The new high speed connections with be coming to schools in the “southern part of the state” as well as several Appalachian counties surround Virginia Tech.