Hawaii State Department
of Education Hawaii State Department
of EducationIn its Strategic Plan for Information Technology (cited in Microsoft in Education, 1996), the Hawaii State Department of Education lists the following goals concerning equity:
"Voice, data, and video to every public school classroom by the year 2000. In a sentence, this is the basic vision for information technology, and to accomplish this, the Department of Education's information technologies must:
- Ensure equity of access to information resources to all persons involved in learning in the State of Hawaii.
- Ensure ubiquitous access to the Department of Education's information and telecommunications systems and services from any place at any time.
- Ensure coordinated and integrated access to the Department of Education's information and telecommunication systems and services so that public information resources are easily, readily, and cost-effectively available to everyone, while privacy and personal information are carefully protected." (p. 14)
