Sarah Boses knows the frustration of really bad internet.

The Santa Fe school board member moved her family from Eldorado to the Galisteo area in November 2020. With three students learning remotely while she worked from home, Boses said the family’s new house desperately needed a reliable internet connection — but didn’t have it.

“It really highlighted how critical this infrastructure is,” she said of the experience, adding, “As it relates to educational equity, I mean, it’s absolutely an equalizing factor.”

Ensuring students and school staff have access to reliable, at-home internet is one piece of New Mexico’s larger push to bring broadband to some of the most remote corners of the state. In addition to investing hundreds of millions of state and federal dollars into broadband infras

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