roundtable: Re: telecomm legislation (fwd)

roundtable: Re: telecomm legislation (fwd)

Re: telecomm legislation (fwd)

W. Curtiss Priest (BMSLIB@mitvma.mit.edu)
Fri, 24 Mar 95 11:19:27 EST 

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Date:  Fri, 24 Mar 95 11:19:27 EST
From: "W. Curtiss Priest" <BMSLIB@mitvma.mit.edu>
To: Telecommunications Policy Roundtable <ROUNDTABLE@CNI.ORG>
Subject: Re: telecomm legislation (fwd)


FYI -- Curt

Curtiss Priest
<bmslib@mitvma.mit.edu>

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Date:   Thu, 23 Mar 1995 13:24:16 -0600 (CST)
To: CoSN Discussion List <cosndisc@list.cren.net>
Subject: Re: telecomm legislation (fwd)


FYI:

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Date: Thu, 23 Mar 1995 14:04:35 -0500
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Subject: Re: telecomm legislation (fwd)


From:  Dennis Bybee at ISTE USA National Office

AN AFFORDABLE SCHOOL ACCESS AMENDMENT WAS ****ADOPTED TODAY***** IN THE US
SENATE COMMERCE COMMITTEE

The US Senate's Commerce Committee voted today to provide affordable access
to telecommunications and information services for elem/sec/post-secondary
education institutions, libraries, and rural telemedicine providers under 
the universal service provisions of Chairman Pressler's "Telecommunications
Competition and Deregulation Act of 1995."

Amendment was co-sponsored by Senator Olympia Snowe (R-ME) and John D.
Rockefeller IV (D-WV) and incorporated language for elementary and secondary
schools and classrooms offered to the committee by Senator Bob Kerrey (D-NE).

The amendment passed by a narrow margin in the full committee's mark-up
meeting.  The Committee's work today was characterized by Senator Kay Bailey
Hutchison (R-TX) as the "End of the Beginning" of this legislative effort in
this Congress.

Affordable school access provisions were encouraged and supported by the
Federal Communications Commission and most national professional education
groups including the American-based, K-12 International Society for
Technology in Education (ISTE), the National School Boards Association
(NSBA), and the National Education Association (NEA).

Affordable access to telecommunications and information services was one
of the primary goals enumerated by the National Coordinating Council on
Technology in Education and Training (NCC-TET) in its "NII:Requirements
for Education and Training".

[NCC-TET contributed to this favorable Senate action by holding a
telecommunications information forum on Capitol
Hill 20 March 1995 where several attendees were engaged in passing out
information after the meeting to Senate offices on the telecommunications
needs of education and training institutions AND thru the INDEPENDENT
actions of members whose awareness of this issue was heightended by
information sharing at recent NCC-TET Legislative Committee meetings.]

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