Olympia Snowe: “They were supposed to be part of a national plan, a national infrastructure system and they truly have been left behind.”

The E-Rate program has fundamentally transformed education in this country.

By the end of this decade, I believe that every school in America should have 1 gigabit of connectivity.

We would not have connectivity and all that it brings to our schools and libraries if it were not for E-Rate.

I just encourage all of us to think about children, about the problems they face, and about our responsibility to help them navigate their way through those waters.