This network is probably one of the more advanced networks in the state, including businesses and colleges. Other schools have this potential, and that's the real beauty of E-Rate.

Connectivity at the home opens the door for a new paradigm in education. We'll be able to link homes and schools like never before through interactive multimedia tools. There are a plethora of applications that make schools more flexible in the present performance of its duties.

We were looking to be able to have enough storage to hold more than 150 courses, and we didn't have the revenue [through the bond issues] to make that kind of purchase.

You have two schools that made decisions for different reasons.

We are at the whim of the schools. We don't have a place to go on a regular basis.

The discrepancy there is that alternative schools were previously exempted from the grading process. The district, in the year 2003-2004, exempted its alternative schools from the grading process. They failed to exempt the alternative schools that are charter schools. And it was just an oversight on the part of the district. All alternative schools in the district couldn't possibly have received an F because they didn't get graded in 2003-2004.