TECH: FWD: 1996-04-17 Executive Order on Computer Technology for
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Subject: FWD: 1996-04-17 Executive Order on Computer Technology for Education
> From Mail-...@CLINTON.AI.MIT.EDU Thu Apr 18 12:04 EDT 1996
> Delivered-By-The-Graces-Of: White House Electronic Publications
> To: Public-Di...@Research.AI.MIT.EDU
> Date: Wed, 17 Apr 1996 23:56-0400
> From: The White House <Publicati...@WhiteHouse.Gov>
> Subject: 1996-04-17 Executive Order on Computer Technology for Education
> Document-Id: PDI://OMA.EOP.GOV.US/1996/4/17/2.TEXT.1
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>
> THE WHITE HOUSE
>
> Office of the Press Secretary
>
> _______________________________________________________________
> For Immediate Release April 17, 1996
>
>
> EXECUTIVE ORDER
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> EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGY: ENSURING OPPORTUNITY
> FOR ALL CHILDREN IN THE NEXT CENTURY
>
>
> In order to ensure that American children have the skills
> they need to succeed in the information-intensive 21st century,
> the Federal Government is committed to working with the private
> sector to promote four major developments in American education:
> making modern computer technology an integral part of every
> classroom; providing teachers with the professional development
> they need to use new technologies effectively; connecting
> classrooms to the National Information Infrastructure; and
> encouraging the creation of excellent educational software.
> This Executive order streamlines the transfer of excess and
> surplus Federal computer equipment to our Nation's classrooms
> and encourages Federal employees to volunteer their time and
> expertise to assist teachers and to connect classrooms.
>
> Accordingly, by the authority vested in me as President
> by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of
> America, including the provisions of the Stevenson-Wydler
> Technology Innovation Act of 1980, as amended (15 U.S.C. 3701
> et seq.), the Federal Property and Administrative Services
> Act of 1949, ch. 288, 63 Stat. 377, and the National Defense
> Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1996, Public Law 104-106,
> it is hereby ordered as follows:
>
> Section 1. Protection of Educationally Useful Federal
> Equipment. (a) Educationally useful Federal equipment is
> a vital national resource. To the extent such equipment can
> be used as is, separated into parts for other computers, or
> upgraded -- either by professional technicians, students,
> or other recycling efforts -- educationally useful Federal
> equipment is a valuable tool for computer education. Therefore,
> to the extent possible, all executive departments and agencies
> (hereinafter referred to as "agencies") shall protect and
> safeguard such equipment, particularly when declared excess
> or surplus, so that it may be recycled and transferred, if
> appropriate, pursuant to this order.
>
> Sec. 2. Efficient Transfer of Educationally Useful Federal
> Equipment to Schools and Nonprofit Organizations. (a) To
> the extent permitted by law, all agencies shall give highest
> preference to schools and nonprofit organizations, including
> community-based educational organizations, ("schools and
> nonprofit organizations") in the transfer, through gift
> or donation, of educationally useful Federal equipment.
>
> (b) Agencies shall attempt to give particular preference
> to schools and nonprofit organizations located in the Federal
> enterprise communities and empowerment zones established in
> the Omnibus Reconciliation Act of 1993, Public Law 103-66.
>
> (c) Each agency shall, to the extent permitted by law
> and where appropriate, identify educationally useful Federal
> equipment that it no longer needs and transfer it to a school
> or nonprofit organization by:
>
>
> (1) conveying research equipment directly to the school
> or organization pursuant to 15 U.S.C. 3710(i); or
>
> (2) reporting excess equipment to the General Services
> Administration (GSA) for donation when declared surplus
> in accordance with section 203(j) of the Federal Property
> and Administrative Services Act of 1949, as amended,
> 40 U.S.C. 484(j). Agencies shall report such equipment
> as far as possible in advance of the date the equipment
> becomes excess, so that GSA may attempt to arrange direct
> transfers from the donating agency to recipients eligible
> under this order.
>
> (d) In transfers made pursuant to paragraph (c)(1) of
> this section, title shall transfer directly from the agency
> to the schools or nonprofit organizations as required by
> 15 U.S.C. 3710(i). All such transfers shall be reported to
> the GSA. At the direction of the recipient institution or
> organization, and if appropriate, transferred equipment may
> be conveyed initially to a nonprofit reuse or recycling program
> that will upgrade it before transfer to the school or nonprofit
> organization holding title.
>
> (e) All transfers to schools or nonprofit organizations,
> whether made directly or through GSA, shall be made at the
> lowest cost to the school or nonprofit organization permitted
> by law.
>
> (f) The availability of educationally useful Federal
> equipment shall be made known to eligible recipients under
> this order by all practicable means, including newspaper,
> community announcements, and the Internet.
>
> (g) The regional Federal Executive Boards shall help
> facilitate the transfer of educationally useful Federal
> equipment from the agencies they represent to recipients
> eligible under this order.
>
> Sec. 3. Assisting Teachers' Professional Development:
> Connecting Classrooms. (a) Each agency that has employees
> who have computer expertise shall, to the extent permitted by
> law and in accordance with the guidelines of the Office of
> Personnel Management, encourage those employees to:
>
> (1) help connect America's classrooms to the National
> Information Infrastructure;
>
> (2) assist teachers in learning to use computers to
> teach; and
>
> (3) provide ongoing maintenance of and technical support
> for the educationally useful Federal equipment transferred
> pursuant to this order.
>
> (b) Each agency described in subsection (a) shall submit
> to the Office of Science and Technology Policy, within 6 months
> of the date of this order, an implementation plan to advance the
> developments described in this order, particularly those
> required in this section. The plan shall be consistent with
> approved agency budget totals and shall be coordinated through
> the Office of Science and Technology Policy.
>
> (c) Nothing in this order shall be interpreted to bar a
> recipient of educationally useful Federal equipment from lending
> that equipment, whether on a permanent or temporary basis, to a
> teacher, administrator, student, employee, or other designated
> person in furtherance of educational goals.
>
> Sec. 4. Definitions. For the purposes of this order:
> (a) "Schools" means individual public or private education
> institutions encompassing prekindergarten through twelfth
> grade, as well as public school districts.
>
> (b) "Community-based educational organizations" means
> nonprofit entities that are engaged in collaborative projects
> with schools or that have education as their primary focus.
> Such organizations shall qualify as nonprofit educational
> institutions or organizations for purposes of section 203(j)
> of the Federal Property and Administrative Services Act of
> 1949, as amended.
>
> (c) "Educationally useful Federal equipment" means
> computers and related peripheral tools (e.g., printers, modems,
> routers, and servers), including telecommunications and research
> equipment, that are appropriate for use in prekindergarten,
> elementary, middle, or secondary school education. It shall
> also include computer software, where the transfer of licenses
> is permitted.
>
> (d) "Nonprofit reuse or recycling program" means a 501(c)
> organization able to upgrade computer equipment at no or low
> cost to the school or nonprofit organization taking title to it.
>
> (e) "Federal Executive Boards," as defined in 5 C.F.R.
> Part 960, are regional organizations of each Federal agency's
> highest local officials.
>
> Sec. 5. This order shall supersede Executive Order
> No. 12821 of November 16, 1992.
>
> Sec. 6. Judicial Review. This order is not intended,
> and should not be construed, to create any right or benefit,
> substantive or procedural, enforceable at law by a party
> against the United States, its agencies, its officers, or
> its employees.
>
>
>
>
> WILLIAM J. CLINTON
>
>
>
>
> THE WHITE HOUSE,
> April 17, 1996.
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