The Ghanaian Government indefinitely closed public and private schools within days of the country recording its first COVID-19 case on 12th March 2020, ultimately including final-year high school students who were initially allowed to continue attending school. The closure of schools was followed by the deployment of teaching via television, radio and the internet, with varying degrees of uptake by children in urban and rural households, and learners living with disabilities. This case study uses a political economy framework to analyze the government’s education technology strategy in times of crisis and the respective uptake by teachers and students, particularly marginalized groups.