Michael Casserly, Universal Service Administrative Company CEO Cheryl Parrino, UW-Extension Chancellor Al Beaver, and Milwaukee Board of School Directors President Joseph B. Fisher. The E-rate gives MPS the ability to have a sustainable funding source to ensure access to information technologies which will be fundamental for the 21 st Century school.
Technology is an increasingly integral part of education today.
I believe that the E-rate will boost our schools' efforts to give children the foundation they need to learn and grow in the next century. The education E-rate program will permit MPS to benefit from telecommunications services for instructional purposes. The E-rate program provides discounts to schools and libraries ranging from 20 percent to 90 percent. MPS schools will use the proceeds to wire antiquated facilities, link to the Internet, and leverage other technology investments. This program will make sure that every Milwaukee public school will be wired to the Internet by the year 2000.