Advanced Telecommunications in U.S. Public Elementary and

and use of advanced telecommunications in regular public schools and, in particular, access to the Internet, plans to obtain Internet access, use of advanced telecommunications by schools and teachers, and sources of support for advanced telecommunications in schools. Major findings of the survey are as follows: · Sixty-five percent of U.S. public schools had access to the Internet in fall 1996 (table 1). This represented a gain of 15 percentage points in each of the last two consecutive years. · While 61 percent of all public elementary schools had Internet access, about three-fourths (77 percent) of secondary schools had Internet access (table 1). · Large schools were more likely to have Internet capabilities than their smaller counterparts. Eighty percent of public schools with 1,000 or more students had Internet access compared with 57 percent of schools with fewer than 300 students and 66 percent of schools enrolling between 300 and 999 students (table 1)