Kansas City has long talked about the impact of a digital divide across school districts in the metro — a $4.6 million need in the era of Coronavirus (COVID-19), said Katie Boody.

And LEANLAB Education is ready to get school’s connected, initiating a new campaign to purchase technology and WiFi hotspots for those impacted by the sprawling city’s disparity of access.

“We were able to survey, essentially, 78,000 students in five days — which is kind of unheard of, but I think that speaks to the demand,” Boody, founder of LEANLAB, said of the education redesign organization and accelerator’s response to an immediate and expanded need for online learning tools in area classrooms — many of which will be shuttered until at least August.