Cable Advisory Council South Central Connecticut

Education Committee Tasks: Work with designated COMCAST representative regarding availability/installation of cable and internet services to education and library institutions and act as liaison with Board of Education and school administration regarding the educational use of the each Channel 19.

1/2004 Continue to clarify Education Access leadership roles & responsibilities and identify opportunities for new leaderhip, improve use of channel resources by keeping dialoque open with Boards of Education and local school staff.

3/2004 Identify the Education Channel Satellite back-fill. Review annually. Identify process for special arrangement for alternate source if reasonable interest by schools in franchise.

4/2004 Annually in January follow-up on scholarship opportunity communication to high school Guidance Dept.(s).

What Is Educational Access?
With respect to "E", the operative word is "ACCESS. " Educational ACCESS TV (As opposed to say, Educational or Instructional TV) means that any and all educators, teachers, students or clients of public, private, parochial, charter, adult or any other form of education are entitled to: equal ACCESS to tools, cameras, computers, etc. - equal ACCESS to skills - the means of video production- equal ACCESS to ideas - media literacy and creative endeavor - as well as physical ACCESS to cable channels - the right to broadcast. The key difference embodied in the term "Access" is that these privileges are not the exclusive preserve of the program managers of a given educational institution or entity but are inclusive of all comers within the "E" subset of potential users.