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    Thousands of Houston-area school children still need at-home tech as online classes ramp up

    As she scrambled to find a computer and internet access for her two elementary-age children last week, Jamesha Adams struck out at every turn. Stores she visited were sold out of affordable laptops, iPads and LeapPads. Some internet providers did not service her downtown Houston neighborhood. Houston ISD did not have take-home devices available for her 6-year-old daughter Kha’lyia and 8-year-old son Rashard, who attend Blackshear Elementary School. “I was really about to lose my mind completely, because I really couldn’t find internet, and it felt like everybody bought up everything that dealt with internet,” Adams said Tuesday as she dropped off her children at a learning center hosted by…

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