My amendment enables schools to use federal technology funds to maintain or repair computers instead of locking them away in storage when they break down or need upgrading. Children don't just learn in school. They also learn at community centers, Boys and Girls Clubs, and at YMCAs. We have the opportunity to use technology to improve lives and remove the barriers to our children's future success. For poor children and children of color, it could mean the death of discrimination and enable them to leap frog into the future.
Technology is the tool, empowerment is the outcome.
No child should be left out or left behind. This amendment takes us a long way toward achieving that goal.