Tools Free java scripts, clipart, fonts, and perl scripts from the premiere web development network. Application Service Provider Receive a FREE 30-day trial including Microsoft Outlook 2000 and Microsoft Office XP including Word, Excel and Powerpoint. The e-rate wiring program won't disappear as some feared, but its grant handling may change. Five 3-inch binders sit atop a filing cabinet in Phil Snyder's office. Collectively, the binders hold more than 1,800 pages of forms, bid documents and technical drawings, which represent the Pasco County School District's most recent application for the federal government's e-rate program.
Every little thing has to be detailed and justified.
Snyder's life could get a little easier, though, if President Bush gets his way. As part of the education plan he has put before Congress, Bush proposes allocating money from the government's popular e-rate program to states via a funding formula instead of the current application process. The plan would roll e-rate and nine other federal technology initiatives into a supersized block grant to the states. Doing so would send more money to local school districts, which would then have greater flexibility in how they spend the money, according to the White House. But some local technology officials and several national advocacy groups aren't so sure that's a good idea.