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Rell Report Required Reading
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Business New Haven
12/13/1999
By: Michele Beck
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HARTFORD - Lt. Governor Jodi Rell has released results of her three-month study on computer readiness in Connecticut's schools and libraries. The report makes 19 recommendations to ensure the state'schildren and teachers are prepared to meet the information technology needs of the new Millennium.
Gov. John G. Rowland will incorporate the recommendations into his
budget and legislative package for the next session of the General Assembly. "The Lieutenant Governor's report to me is comprehensive and looks beyond the need for hardware and wires to the need to properly train teachers and parents in the use of computers," Rowland said.
The main goal of the report is to make children computer-literate, or "cyber-ready," by the sixth grade. The Rell report recommends that the state's Department of Education develop benchmarks to measure the results of computer education by July 2000.
The report also recommends that the state invest $10 million a year over three years to ensure that all Connecticut classrooms are wired to the Internet by the year 2004.
Other suggestions include requiring teachers to meet minimum computer proficiency standards before obtaining a teaching certificate, encouraging local school districts to dedicate two percent of their budgets to technology-related items, and offering full college degree programs online. The education department and the state's Department of Technology will be chiefly responsible for implementing the Rell proposals.
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