Welcome to Week Two of the US:PA online seminar

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Thanks for your postings in the first week of the seminar.
If you look on the page entitled SEMINAR ACTIVITIES WEEK
BY WEEK (/projects/us-pa/activities.html),
you will find a brief summary of the answers given to the
three questions which were the focus of last week's discussion.

We have put together a group with a broad background and
varied expertise.  As we move to focus more directly on
the Universal Service discount and its implementation in
Pennsylvania, this diversity should help us to cover the
majority of the issues relevant to this discussion.

The broad topic of this week's discussion, as outlined
on the ACTIVITIES or AGENDA page, has to do with the
Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission and its steps to
implement the federal program.  On Wednesday of this
week we expect to receive the report of the Task Force
on Universal Service.  You can find interim reports of
the Task Force in the US:PA RESOURCE LIBRARY
(/projects/us-pa/resources.html).

One expects that Pennsylvania's implementation of the
federal program will follow the general outline laid
out in the FCC's May 7 ruling, since any significant
deviation from this ruling would lead to an accounting
nightmare for schools and libraries having to comply
with divergent state and federal programs.  If you 
believe this strategy to be flawed, now is your chance
to state your opinions on this.  If you endorse this
strategy, you might wish to focus more closely on the
implementation details, which we will explore in our
discussions this week and next week.

To assist in this discussion we are setting up a
FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS list (FAQ) on the subject
of Universal Service for Pennsylvania schools and
libraries.  I'll describe this list and some initial
submissions for it in a separate message.

For this week's assignment you are invited to augment
the list of FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS and help us
begin to answer those questions which have already been
posted.  The assembled list will be linked to the
US:PA Web site.

Thanks again for your participation.  We'll try to 
assemble a fairly complete resource for Universal Service
in Pennsylvania over the next two weeks.  Your participation
is the key to making this resource reflect the needs and
knowledge of Pennsylvania teachers and librarians.

Thanks,
Bob Carlitz

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