Political Quotes

“in March 1996 scores of volunteers throughout California helped make NetDay 96 one of the most successful one-day public projects in history. At the time, we all noted that this electronic barn-raising could be a turning point in educational history--but only if we followed through with other steps to help our children travel the information superhighway. I would like to take one step by introducing the Computer Donation Incentive Act of 1997. The successful education of America's children is closely linked to the use of innovative educational technologies, particularly computer-based instruction and research. Unfortunately, however, far too many public elementary and secondary school classrooms lack the computers they need to take advantage of these new educational technologies. The Computer Donation Incentive Act will help get our students those computers. Current law allows computer manufacturers to receive a greater deduction for donations of computers to college and universities, for scientific and research purposes, than for donations made to elementary and secondary schools for education purposes. That limitation may have made sense when this provision was enacted, before the personal computer boom, but not in the era of the Information Superhighway, such a limitation is unreasonable.”