APTS is a nonprofit corporation whose members are the nation's public television stations. It represents stations' interests before Congress, the FCC, the Departments of Commerce and Education, and other federal agencies. APTS also provides planning, research and communications support to its member stations. APTS writes to inform the Web-based Education Commission of public television's innovative work addressing many of the expressed priorities of the commission, in particular, Technology Trends, Access and Equity, Teacher Training and Research and Development.
Public television is currently among the nation's largest providers of educational services.
Its signal reaches 99 percent of American households. Founded by the nation's educational community, public television aims to make educational, informational, and cultural programming available to all. With its expertise and experience in forming community partnerships, public television is in a position to maximize the benefits of new and emerging educational technologies. The trend toward forming community partnerships around new technologies can benefit all, especially the underserved. Educational communities are finding that their interests can be advanced in ways they had not even imagined, by partnering with their local public television station to maximize the efficient use of new and emerging technologies in the interest of educational services for all.