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An Arthur Andersen audit of 18 recipients of first-year eRate funds has sparked an investigation of one of the beneficiaries for possible fraud, eSchool News has learned. The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has confirmed that the suspected eRate violations are an “ongoing law enforcement matter” but has rejected an eSchool News Freedom of Information Act […]
Mr Guy-Olivier Segond, former President of the State Council of the Republic and Canton of Geneva, has been appointed Special Ambassador for the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS), the first phase of which is to held in Geneva from 10 to 12 December 2003.
Despite inking a four-year, $37.2 million contract with Apple Computer in December, Maine education officials face the possibility that Gov. Angus King’s ambitious plan to give every seventh and eighth grader in the state a laptop will be targeted for budget cuts.
The Bush administration has responded to progress in bridging the digital divide by cutting technology funding for low-income communities.
The US Department of Commerce has released its long-anticipated digital divide report, A Nation Online: How Americans Are Expanding Their Use of the Internet.
Although President Bush’s fiscal year 2003 budget request would increase funding for Title I, reading, and voucher programs, it would fund state block grants for technology at the same $700 million level as FY 2002 and eliminate other school technology programs entirely.
Classroom Connect today at the Texas Computer Education Association 2002 Convention & Exposition (Booth # 614), announced it has gained two new approvals from Texas educational authorities. The Texas State Board for Educator Certification (SBEC) has named Classroom Connect’s Connected University® an approved provider of Continuing Professional Education, and Classroom Connect itself is now a […]
Portland and Bangor- “We object to President Bush’s proposal to take $3 million of vital education and research funding away from Maine in order to pay for other education initiatives,” U.S. Representatives Tom Allen and John Baldacci said today.
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has initiated a review process of the rules and regulations that govern the eRate, the $2.25 billion program that provides discounts on telecommunications services and internet access to the nation’s schools and libraries.
WASHINGTON, Feb 4 (Reuters) – The Bush Administration on Monday proposed scrapping a program that handed out $42.8 million in 2001 to help state and local governments and nonprofit groups tap into the Internet and other high-tech networks.