More than a third of households with children in Baltimore lack a wired internet connection and more than a quarter don’t have access to a desktop or laptop computer ? an inequity highlighted as students have been studying from home since mid-March.

An Abell Foundation report released this week concluded that the city lagged behind the country as a whole when it comes to internet access conducive to learning at home.

About 19,200 households with children in the city lack a wired, reliable internet connection and more than 15,000 households with children do not have access to a computer, according to the study.

About 8,900 households in Baltimore with children have no access to broadband, meaning at least a smartphone.

The study’s author, John B. Horrigan, concluded that households in the city, particularly those at lower income levels, were slower to gain access to wired broadband services and computers than the nation as a whole.

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