- (a) The following grant standards are hereby developed to provide grants to education service cooperatives for acquiring equipment and receiving telecommunications services necessary for each school district to have distance learning availability.
(b) The grants shall be used to assist school districts:
- (1) That do not have distance learning capabilities; and
- (2) In upgrading existing distance learning capabilities.
- (c) The grants shall also be used by the education service cooperatives to provide technical assistance to the school districts in implementing and maintaining distance learning as an educational tool.
- (d) Each school district shall have adequate connectivity to provide quality of service for distance learning.
- (e) Distance learning technical protocols shall be in alignment with technical standards set by the Director of the Office of State Technology.
- (f) Education service cooperatives and school districts shall coordinate with the Division of Elementary and Secondary Education to seek to obtain the benefits of the Federal Communications Commission’s E-Rate Program.