There is an urgent push to get Chromebooks into the hands of CCSD students.
The quarantine situation is not going away anytime soon, which means distance learning will continue to be a part of normal life.
13 Action News is teaming up with nonprofits to get laptops and Chromebooks into the hands of students who have no access to distance learning.
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