O m A Chicken in Every Pot, A Net Link in Every Classroom 7bm Harrison Santa Aria (CA) Unified School District "Lets work together to meet thesegoals: Every 8-year-old must be able to read; every 12-year-old must be able to log onto the Internet; every 18-year-old must be able to go to college, and every adult American must be able to keep on learning.... "Tknth, we must bring the power of the Inj~rmation Age into all our schools. Last year I challenged America to connect every classroom and library to the Internet by the year 2000, so that, ~ r the first time in histor5 a child in the most isolated rural town, the most comj~rtable suburb, the poorest inner-city school will have the same access to the same universe of knowledge. I ask your support to complete this historic mission." --Bill Clinton, State of the Union Address, 1997 U I,i,i =,.I m am a public school teacher and union activist. I am a Democrat and voted for Bill Clinton. Yes, I know that any State of the Union address will contain "a-chicken-in-every-pot" rhetoric. But in the context of public education, the Internet should not have made 10th
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