Funding Funding usually comes from multiple sources. Federal policies have less of an impact than state policies because they are considered more unstable and uncertain. In the case of the Cleveland Elementary School in San Francisco for instance, most of the funds came from the State but the salaries are from the Title 1 Federal fund. The school also gets money from the limited English proficient fund and the improvements fund, both of which are provided by the state. Schools come up with creative ways to get funding.
Sources can range from grant writing to automatic vending machines.
The most frequent reason to implement a WAN is to connect to Internet services such as the World Wide Web. A majority of districts have a maximum bandwidth of 56 Kbps. You need a special phone line installed by the telephone company, and you have to make sure that the Internet Service Provider you want to use supports this technology. With ISDN, the bandwidth can reach up to 128 Kbps, more than four times the speed of a 28.8 modem. Internet service providers can be local universities, commercial providers, or statewide networks.