Beaufort Co. schools state testing continues after delay for district internet outage
The internet is back up for Beaufort County schools, following a 90-minute outage Monday morning as students took state-mandated end-of-course exams, which are administered online.
The internet was down for approximately 90 minutes, between 9:30 and 11 a.m., district spokesman Jim Foster said. EOC exams are proceeding after a 90-minute delay, he said.
The district still does not know the cause of the district-wide outage, Foster said Monday.
“Our tech folks are still figuring out what occurred,” he said.
A similar incident in 2013 was caused by a cut fiber at a Savannah connection facility of Hargray Communications, the district’s then-internet provider. The district’s internet was down for more than four hours then, according to previous reporting by the Island Packet and Beaufort Gazette.
The district’s current internet provider is Segra, formerly known as Spirit Communications, Foster said Monday.
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This story was originally published December 16, 2019 at 11:33 AM.