Telecommunications Technology: Federal Funding for Schools and Libraries

摘要

You asked that we review federally created or facilitated programs for helping schools and libraries with their telecommunications and information technology efforts. In September 1998, we testified before your Committees on the work we had conducted up to that time. As agreed with your offices, we have continued our work to compile a more complete response. The specific questions you asked us to address are program characteristics, potential for duplication, coordination efforts, and avilable information on fraud, waste, and abuse. We are presenting brief answers to these questions in the body of this report and more detail in the appendixes.