Freshman Rep. Honda (D-Cal.) is defending e-rate against possible...
Freshman Rep. Honda (D-Cal.) is defending e-rate against possible changes by Bush Administration and trying to enlist support of industry. He has been making series of calls this week to high-tech media on subject, pushing idea that e-rate is…
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good for high-tech businesses. Having schools without Internet access will hurt companies’ future employer base, he told us, and will “slow down the creation of the end-user population… Once [kids] leave school, they become consumers.” Honda said proposal floated by Administration to merge e-rate into other Education Dept. grants to states would take away “the very thing that makes the e- rate successful. It’s specific, targeted, it has a very clear mission.” Once that money is pushed into larger Education Dept. budget, he warned, it’s likely to be diverted: “School systems have a lot of needs.”