How the costly digital age is leaving behind rural, underfunded schools

Matthew Splain, superintendent of the Otto-Eldred School District, said schools in his district are struggling to keep aging, refurbished laptops from dying on students.
The district’s struggles are not isolated.
Otto-Eldred is nestled in the mountains of rural McKean County. Like other schools in Pennsylvania’s remote areas, this district, too, faces recurrent fiscal challenges, is chronically underfunded and struggles to deliver students a future that promises technological innovat