SCHOOLS UNPLUGGED, FCC UNDONE.

The article informs that the Government Accountability Office (GAO), the investigative arm of the U.S. Congress, has blasted the United States Federal Communications Commission (FCC) for its poor handling of funds slated to connect U.S. public schools and libraries to the Internet. A GAO report blam...

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Published in:Communications of the ACM Vol. 48; no. 6; p. 10
Format: Article
Published: Association for Computing Machinery Jun2005
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