Blueprints and Broadband — from ednetnews.com by Anne Wujcik —Friday, March 19, 2010
…the Obama Administration released its blueprint to overhaul the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB), to mixed reviews. “A Blueprint for Reform” sets out the administration’s K-12 priorities and provides a bit more detail about how the various programs will operate.
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The plan sets out six long term goals for the next decade, including calling for every American community to have affordable access to at least 1 gigabit per second broadband service to anchor institutions such as schools, hospitals and government buildings and at least 100 million U.S. homes to have affordable access to actual download speeds of at least 100 megabits per second and actual upload speeds of at least 50 megabits per second (emphasis DSC).
On first read, there doesn’t seem to be anything really unexpected in the administration’s blueprint for the reauthorization of ESEA. Talking to Congress, Secretary Duncan emphasized that the blueprint supports the administration’s three major goals for reauthorization…