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The Act clearly provided a directive to establish a fund sufficient to keep telephone rates affordable , but the Commission focused its attention primarily on an ancillary provision relating to schools and libraries , the so-called " e-rate " program . Before the e-rate , only 39 percent of classrooms in poor school districts in rural and urban America had any Internet connections compared to 62 percent of classrooms in wealthier districts . We hear a bell or a whistle and almost instantly we " fix " the source of the sound . He is a former school teacher and a former deputy sheriff , and a present Harley-Davidson rider - - and he cares a lot about these issues . The researchers examined the medical records of 7,228 patients who had visited doctors during periods of known ozone depletion ( October 1991 and 1992 ) and identified seven cases of actinic keratitis , of which five were in men who were welders and had been exposed to the bright light of welding arcs . The case may have far reaching effects on the ability of libraries , schools , state universities , and government offices to install blocking or filtering software on their computers . Students and teachers are conducting research and gathering data from sources beyond their school and community , and scientists and other experts are participating in classroom projects from remote locations . Among the board members is Catherine Ebert , Horatio Ebert 's granddaughter and a Baltimore tax attorney . " " My son and daughter volunteered with the program and share my belief that it is a vital part of patient care at the Children 's Center , " she says . But , is this rhetoric warranted if we are not talking about eliminating , but rather limiting , the program , at least while we attend to other , languishing aspects of universal service ?