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- Congressman: E-rate program 'easily ripped off'
- WASHINGTON -- The $2.25 billion federal program that wires public schools and libraries to the Internet is "an invitation for disaster" that needs closer scrutiny, the head of a congressional subcommittee said Thursday. In the first of a series of hearings before the House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on...
- Research articles 2004-06-18
- Supreme Court Upholds Internet Filters in School, Libraries.
- By David Plotnikoff, San Jose Mercury News, Calif. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Jun. 24--The Supreme Court on Monday upheld a law re...uiring schools and libraries that receive federal technology funding to use software intended to filter out pornography. By...
- Research articles 2003-06-24
- Court Keeps Internet Filters Out of Libraries.
- By David Plotnikoff, San Jose Mercury News, Calif. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Jun. 1--Three federal judges today threw out a federal law that would have forced public libraries to install filtering software onto computers with Internet access. The federal government's...
- Research articles 2002-06-01
- FCC Issues CIPA Rules; Schools Must Comply to Keep E-rate Funds.
- Schools have until Oct. 28 to get filtering policies and technology in place, or be in the process of putting them in place, if they want to keep receiving their E-rate funds, according to a final rule issued by the Federal Communications Commission FCC. ...
- Research articles 2001-04-11
- ACLU, Library Group Sue to Stop Child Internet Protection Act.(American Civil Liberties Union; American Library Association)
- Civil liberties groups and libraries recently filed lawsuits to block the Children's Internet Protection Act CIPA, a new law that requires all schools and public libraries that receive E-rate funds to install Internet filtering software. The law, set to be phased in beginning April 20, requires...
- Research articles 2001-04-02
- Congress Passes New Federal Filtering Requirements.(Government Activity)
- Congress has passed the Children's Internet Protection Act CIPA and the Neighborhood Protection Act. Almost identical, these acts require that schools and libraries receiving e-rate, TLCF and/or LSTA funds have a policy of Internet safety in place. This policy must include a "technology protection measure" with...
- Research articles 2001-04-01
- ACLU Plans To Mount Legal Challenge To CHIP Act; Schools Not Included.
- The American Civil Liberties Union ACLU plans to file a lawsuit this month challenging the legality of a portion of the law that requires schools and libraries to use Internet filtering software in order to receive E-rate funds, ETN has learned. While the law...
- Research articles 2001-03-14
- Dems ready to battle for E-rate.
- WASHINGTON--Education Secretary Roderick Paige refused to retreat from President Bush's plan to scrap the schools and libraries Internet program, a posture that prompted Sen. Barbara Mikulski (D-Md.) to demand that the administration come forward with more details about how it will pay for an initiative that...
- Research articles 2001-02-19
- symposium
- Q: Is the FCC's so-called E-rate tacked on to phone bills a good idea? Yes: It is helping to bridge the gap between the technology haves and have-nots. The poet William Butler Yeats tells us that education is not the filling of a pail but the lighting of...
- Research articles 2000-06-05
- THE WHITE HOUSE: Statement by the President >T.
- M2 PRESSWIRE-19 November 1999-THE WHITE HOUSE: Office of the Press Secretary -- Statement by the President C1994-99 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:171199 Today, the Federal Communications Commission announced that the "e-rate" will help connect over one million classrooms to the Internet. This...
- Research articles 1999-11-19
- Interview: Gloria Tristani on the E-rate, V-Chip
- Half the nation's classrooms still aren't connected to the Internet. Additional E-rate funding, notes the FCC's Gloria Tristani, will help the have-nots close the cyberspace gap. Late last spring, the five members of the Federal Communications Commission met to determine how much funding schools would get this coming year via...
- Research articles 1999-11-01
- Protection From Porn
- The Clinton administration is urging the FCC to make sure efforts to connect schools to the Internet don't provide opportunities for children to view Internet smut. But the National Telecommunications and Information Administration NTIA, which advises the executive branch on telecom issues, stopped short of demanding that e-rate recipients...
- Research articles 1999-04-12
- Meddling With The Internet: Congress Tries Censorship Again With Cipa -
- With the U.S. Congress' second most recent attempt to censor the Internet with COPA Child Online Protection Act having been rejected and as yet unresolved as to whether the Justice Department will proceed to appeal that decision on a route to the Supreme Court ('Online Newsletter' March 1999 p.1), the...
- Research articles 1999-04-01
- -THE WHITE HOUSE: Up to 47,000 schools/libraries to receive funds to connect children to the Internet.
- M2 PRESSWIRE-26 November 1998-THE WHITE HOUSE: Office of the Vice President -- Vice President Gore announces up to 47,000 schools and libraries to receive funds to connect children to the Internet C1994-98 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:231198 Washington, DC -- Vice President Gore announced today that, over...
- Research articles 1998-11-26
- ADVISORY/Data Communications Magazine Exposes $1.3 Billion Telephone Surcharge Scandal
- --BUSINESS WIRE-- Federal Government has Spent None of the Money Collected for Universal Internet Access in Schools, Libraries The federal program that has applied surcharges of up to 5 percent on phone bills to provide universal Internet and telecom access for schools and libraries has failed, according...
- Research articles 1998-11-19
- REMINDER/Data Communications Magazine Exposes $1.3 Billion Telephone Surcharge Scandal
- --BUSINESS WIRE-- Federal Government has Spent None of the Money Collected for Universal Internet Access in Schools, Libraries The federal program that has applied surcharges of up to 5 percent on phone bills to provide universal Internet and telecom access for schools and libraries has failed, according...
- Research articles 1998-11-21
- FCC "downsizes" discount Internet program - for public schools and libraries
- Corporate pressure blocks public schools and libraries from getting information superhighway discounts Public schools may get smaller than expected discounts on Internet connections following recent action by the Federal Communications Commission. By a 3-2 vote, FCC commissioners voted to scale back the "e-rate" -- the special...
- Research articles 1998-08-20
- House Passes Fcc Funds Bill
- House early Aug. 6 passed FY 1999 Commerce appropriations measure (HR-4276), 225-203, as expected e-rate debate failed to materialize and Internet gambling received just few min. of floor time. Bill would cut FCC budget by $5 million, to $181 million, from current fiscal year while not providing any funds for...
- Research articles 1998-08-10
- Internet Access: U.S. Senate Passes Bill Requiring Internet Filtering Such as Net Nanny in Schools and Libraries Receiving E-rate Funding
- In a swift and unanimous vote on Friday, the U.S. Senate passed the fiscal 1999 appropriations bill for the departments of Commerce, State and Justice, with a provision that requires schools and libraries, receiving federal discounts on Internet access, to install filtering software on their computers to shield children from...
- Research articles 1998-08-03
- Gore tried to fund Internet scheme with hidden taxes
- It looks as though Al Gore's pet projecthooking every classroom and library up to the Internet and using a hidden tax to pay for itis about to explode in his face. It will be a consequence richly deserved. The real outrage is the way Gore and his supporters have gone...
- Research articles 1998-06-26
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