This weekend, President-elect Obama announced in a radio address a plan to craft what he described as the largest public investment in national infrastructure (roads, bridges, schools, broadband, and health-care-information technology, among other things) since the Eisenhower Administration.
The schools used the internet to collaborate, supported by BT Group (BT), which upgraded the school's broadband connection.
Connecting the nation's schools to broadband is a good idea.
Mr Abbott, once a climate-change denier, vows to scrap the tax (as well as cut spending on Labor's schools and broadband projects).The trouble with Labor is twofold.
To address the problem head-on, the U.S. Department of Education created ConnectED, a program that aims to fit 99percentt of America's schools with broadband by 2018.
During a speech earlier today, Obama gave details about the pledges from the tech companies, along with a commitment to connect more schools with broadband Internet.
While most of our classmates were watching news reports around a common TV, I was trying to link my computer to our schools' nascent broadband system, so I could learn what was going on and communicate with my family.
The first-of-its-kind study of schools and broadband speeds found that low-income students are twice as likely as affluent students to have slow Internet speeds at their schools.
Another initiative seeks to give all high schools broadband internet connections by 2012.
It argues for focusing on what locals need: social care, good schools, broadband.
