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REMARKS BY PRESIDENT WILLIAM JEFFERSON CLINTON
NET DAY VOLUNTEER RALLY
YGNACIO VALLEY HIGH SCHOOL
CONCORD, CALIFORNIA
MARCH 9, 1996
Acknowledgments: Vice President Gore for introduction; Delaine Eastin, California
Superintendent of Public Instruction; Sheila Walker, Principal of Ygnacio [IG-NAY-SEE-0]
High School; student; John Gage; Michael Kaufman; Senator Boxer; Representative George
Miller;
It is great to be back here in California. The Vice President and I have looked forward
to this day with great anticipation. Net Day is the brainchild of two men, John Gage of Sun
Microsystems and Michael Kaufman of KQED-TV, who have revived the old-fashioned
American barnraising tradition -- the idea of people from all walks of life coming together and
pitching in to build something good for their community. There are two things you can say
about barnraisings -- they are tremendously productive and they are fun. That's what Net Day
is all about. We can begin to connect every one of California's 13,000 schools to the Internet,
and by working together in a spirit of teamwork and community, we can have a great time
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in publishing and distance collaboration in history." What we are doing today will have as
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much impact on our future as the invention of the telephone or TV, or man's first landing on
the moon. If I may borrow an analogy from the space age, let me say that Net Day is one
small step for California's schools-- one quantum leap into our future.
The beauty of this moment is that we are meeting the challenges of the age of
technology the same way this country has always faced its future-- united, together, as one
America. There is no generation gap between the old-fashioned American values of hard
work, teamwork, and optimism and our forward progress into the 21st century. As I said in
the State of the Union, the era of big government is over. But we must not go back to the era
when our people were left to fend for themselves. We need more of the kind of personal and
corporate responsibility on display here all over America.
When I came to San Francisco last September, we issued a challenge to California to
connect at least 20 percent of your schools to the information superhighway by the end of this
school year. And we knew that the only way this would work is if you mobilized a massive
volunteer effort, involving the corporate community, teachers, students, and engineers from
this state's leading high-tech companies. I am happy to tell you that California has answered
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the call -- big time. More than 17,000 of you have signed up to help us begin wiring your
schools today. That is a remarkable response. If anyone doubts that Americans still care
about their communities, the education of their children, and the future of this country -- they
should be here today to see what I see. You are what's right with America. And what you
are doing reminds us that we live in an age of great possibility if people are willing to work
together to make the most their lives.
Today, more Americans have more chances to live up to their dreams that at any time
in our nation's history. New technologies are opening up prospects for vast new opportunities
that will bring greater prosperity. A growing marketplace is putting a premium on the kind of
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ingenuity and skills Americans must have if we are going to move forward together in the 21s.t;..,.,.e,f~
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That means high standards for our schools, and high expectations for our students.
means opening the doors of college to every student who wants to enter them. It means
supporting efforts like our School-to-Work programs which help young people who don't go
on to college right away find good jobs while they continue their education. It means support
for AmeriCorps, which is now giving 25,000 young Americans a chance to solve community
problems while earning money for college. It means challenging schools to impart the basic
values that keep our society together, through character education, and the teaching of good
values and good citizenship. We are doing all these things. But we have to do more.
That's why I have proposed giving $1000 merit scholarships to the top five percent of
every high school graduating class. I have also proposed expanding work study to include a
million students so more people can work their way through college. And if we are going to
cut taxes, what better way to do it than to give a tax deduction of up to $10,000 to every
American family for the cost of college tuition. That is the right way to cut taxes.
But we know that none of this will matter unless we bring the information and
technology revolution into every classroom in America. In the State of the Union, I called on
Americans to join this national mission to make every child technologically literate. We want
to place quality computers in every classroom and every library in our country by the dawn of
the 21st century. We want trained teachers to bring those computers to life. And we want
creative software to stretch our minds and our horizons. We know this can make a major
difference in the education of our children.
Last month I witnessed this first-hand when I visited the Christopher Columbus Middle
School in Union City, New Jersey. At one time, the Union City school system was so bad, it
was on the verge of a state takeover. But it was revitalized by a community partnership
involving Bell Atlantic, local government, teachers, parents and students to put computers in
every classroom and give children and their parents access to the excitement and potential of
the information superhighway. Today, with computers in every seventh grade classroom
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linked to computers at every student's home, the Columbus School is experiencing a
remarkable turnaround. Test scores are now more than 10 points above the statewide average.
And the school now hold's the district's best attendance record. Students are excited by this
new way of learning. And parents and teachers are communicating by way of e-mail. That is
the potential you are unleashing today. If Union City can do it, California can do it. And
every school system in Americlj\ c9;n ,dq--jt.
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Al~ over this country we are seeing the benefits of this new technology in our schools.
Over 130 recent academic studies have shown clearly that the use of technology in support of
instruction has led to higher achievement in language and art and math and social studies, and,
of course, in science. We have dramatic proof of the power of technology to expand
opportunity for our young people. We have to harness that power and spread it throughout
this country.
I can think of no better place for us to begin than here in California -- the state that
leads the world in technological innovation. Until now, this leadership has too often stopped
at the classroom door. California ranks 45th in the nation in the ratio of students to
computers. While many suburban children have access to computers in their homes, other
children in rural areas and inner cities pass their school years without coming close to the
information superhighway. The longer they are kept away, the less chance they have of
building good lives in a global economy.
Thanks to the dedicated companies and individuals gathered here today, all that is about
to change. You are taking the lead. The rest of America should follow.
And everyone should note that you are doing this through a partnership, not through
big government. Sun Microsystems has helped organize Net Day. More than 10 percent of its
employees are volunteering today. Companies such as AT&T, MCI, Netcom, America Online
and the Scholastic Network are offering free access to the Internet and other on-line services.
Pacific Bell is providing high-speed telephone lines to schools and more than 1,000 wiring
kits. Apple is donating computers. Netscape and Microsoft are providing free software. And
hundreds of other companies are sponsoring individual schools. Corporate responsibility is
alive and well in California. And I want to thank all of you for keeping it that way.
Today is just a beginning. We will not finish our work in one day. There will be
other Net Days until our job is complete. A little while later this morning, I will participate in
the first hook-up here at Ygnacio Valley High School. And others of you will do the same all
over this state. I want to thank all of you for participating in this historic event. I urge more
citizens to do what you are doing-- get involved, make a contribution, be a part of history.
We will reach our goal if we all pull together. The great lesson of our democracy is that when
we are divided we defeat ourselves. But when we are united we never lose.
Your children and grandchildren will look back on this day and thank you for taking
�this important step to secure their future. And the rest of America will thank you for showing
them the way. And so, without further ado, let the future begin.
Thank you and God bless you all.
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REMARKS BY PRESIDENT WILLIAM JEFFERSON CLINTON
NET DAY VOLUNTEER RALLY
YGNACIO VALLEY HIGH SCHOOL
- CONCORD, CALIFORNIA
MARCH 9, 1996
Acknowledgments: Vice President Gore for introduction; Delaine Eastin, California
Superintendent of Public Instruction; Sheila Walker, Principal of Ygnacio [IG-NAY-SEE-0]
High School; student; John Gage; Michael Kaufman; Senator Boxer; Representative George
Miller;
It is great to be back here in California. The Vice President and I have looked forward
to this day with great anticipation. Net Day is the brainchild of two men, John Gage of Sun
Microsystems and Michael Kaufman of KQED-TV, who have revived the old-fashioned
American barnraising tradition -- the idea of people from all walks of life coming together and
pitching in to build something good for their community. There are two things you can say
about barnraisings -- they are tremendously productive and they are fun. That's what Net Day
is all about. We can begin to connect every one of California's 13,000 schools to the Internet,
and by working together in a spirit of teamwork and community, we can have a great time
doing it.
Net Day is a symbol of the greater technological revolution that is sweeping, not only
/j l)l this country, but the world. John Gage has said that "The web represents the biggest explosion
. ~ in publishing and distance collaboration in history." What we are doing today will have as
much impact on our future as the invention of the telephone or TV, or man's first landing on
the moon. If I may borrow an analogy from the space age, let me say that Net Day is one
small step for California's schools -- one quantum leap into our future.
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The bealffy of this moment is that we are mret~~ challenges of the age of
technol9gy the same way this country has always faced its future-- united, together, as one
America. There is no generation gap between the old-fashioned American values of hard
work,_.teamwork, and optimism and our forward progress into the 21st century. As I said in
the State of the Union, the era of big government is over. But we must not go back to the era
when our people were left to fend for themselves. We need more of the kind of personal and
corporate responsibility on display here all over America.
When I came to San Francisco last September, we issued a challenge to California to
connect at least 20 percent of your schools to the information superhighway by t~f this
school year. And we knew that the only way this would work is if you mobilized a massive
volunteer effort, involving the corporate community, teachers, students, and engineers from ·
this state's leading high-tech companies. I am happy to tell you that California has answered
1
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the call -- big time. More than 17,000 of you have signed up to help us begin wiring your
schools today. That is a remarkable response. If anyone doubts that Americans still care
about their communities, the education of their children, and the future of this country -- they
should be here today to see what I see. You are what's right with America. And what you
are doing reminds us that we live in an age of great possibility if people are willing to work
to ether to make the most their lives.
Today, more Americans have more chances to live up to their dreams that at any time
in our nation's history. New technologies are opening up prospects for vast new opportunities
that will bring greater prosperity. A growing marketplace is putting a premium on the kind of
ingenuit an
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That means high standards for our schools, and high expectations for our students. It
means opening the doors of college to every student who wants to enter them. It means
supporting efforts like our School-to-Work programs which help young people who don't go
on to college right away find good jobs while they continue their education. It means support
for AmeriCorps, which is now giving 25,000 young Americans a chance to solve community
problems while earning money for college. It means challenging schools to impart the basic
values that keep our society together, through character education, and the teaching of good
values and good citizenship. We are doing all these things. But we have to do more.
That's why I have proposed giving $1000 merit scholarships to the top five percent of
every high school graduating class. I have also proposed expanding work study to include a
million students so more people can work their way through college. And if we are going to
cut taxes, what better way to do it than to give a tax deduction of up to $10,000 to every
American family for the cost of college tuition. That is the right way to cut taxes.
But we know that none of this will matter unless we bring the information and
technology revolution into every classroom in America. In the State of the Union, I called on
Americans to join this national mission to make every hild technologically literate. We want
to place quality computers in every classroom and e ry library in our country by the dawn of
the 21st century. We want trained teachers to brin those computers to life. And we want
creative software to stretch our minds and our ho zons. We know this can make a major
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Last mont
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School in Union City, New Jersey. At one ti e, the Union City school system was so bad, it·
was on the verge of a state takeover. But it as revitalized by a community partnership
involving Bell Atlantic, local government, t chers, parents and students to put computers in
every classroom and give children and their arents access to the excitement and potential of
the information superhighway. Today, with omputers in every seventh grade classroom
�linked to computers at every student's home, the Columbus School is experiencing a
remarkable turnaround. Test scores are now more than 10 points above the statewide average.
And the school now hold's the district's best attendance record. Students are excited by this
new way of learning. And parents and teachers are communicating by way of e-mail. That is
the potential you are unleashing today. If Union City can do it, California can do it. And
every school system in America can do it.
All over this country we are seeing the benefits of this new technology in our schools.
Over 130 recent academic studies have shown clearly that the use of technology in support of
instruction has led to higher achievement in language and art and math and social studies, and,
of course, in science. We have dramatic proof of the power of technology to expand
opportunity for our young people. We have to harness that power and spread it throughout
this country.
I can think of no better place for us to begin than here in California -- the state that
leads the world in technological innovation. Until now, this leadership has too often stopped
at the classroom door. California ranks 45th in the nation in the ratio of students to
computers. While many suburban children have access to computers in their homes, other
children in rural areas and inner cities pass their school years without coming close to the
information superhighway. The longer they are kept away, the less chance they have of
building good lives in a global economy.
Thanks to the dedicated companies and individuals gathered here today, all that is about
to change. You are taking the lead. The rest of America should follow.
And everyone should note that you are doing this through a partnership, not through
big government. Sun Microsystems has helped organize Net Day. More than 10 percent of its
employees are volunteering today. Companies such as AT&T, MCI, Netcom, America Online
and the Scholastic Network are offering free access to the Internet and other on-line services.
Pacific Bell is providing high-speed telephone lines to schools and more than 1,000 wiring
kits. Apple is donating computers. Netscape and Microsoft are providing free software. And
hundreds of other companies are sponsoring individual schools. Corporate responsibility is
alive and well in California. And I want to thank all of you for keeping it that way.
Today is just a beginning. We will not finish our work in one day. There will be
other Net Days until our job is complete. A little while later this morning, I will participate in
the first hook-up here at Ygnacio Valley High School. And others of you will do the same all
over this state. I want to thank all of you for participating in this historic event. I urge more
citizens to do what you are doing-- get involved, make a contribution, be a part of history.
We will reach our goal if we all pull together. The great lesson of our democracy is that when
we are divided we defeat ourselves. But when we are united we never lose.
Your children and grandchildren will look back on this day and thank you for taking
3
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this important step to secure their future. And the rest of America will thank you for showing
them the way. And so, without further ado, let the future begin.
Thank you and God bless you all.
4
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REMARKS BY PRESIDENT WILLIAM JEFFERSON CLINTON
NET DAY VOLUNTEER RALLY
CALIFORNIA
MARCH 9, 1996
Acknowledgments: Vice President Gore for introduction; student; John Gage; Michael
Kaufman; Senator Boxer; Representative George Miller;
It is great to be back here in California. The Vice President and I have looked forward
to this day with great anticipation. Net Day is a symbol of the greater technological revolution
that is sweeping, not only this country, but the world. Bill Gates, the founder of Microsoft, in
his book, The Road Ahead, says that the digital chip is the biggest change in information
technology in 500 years, since Gutenberg first printed the Bible in Europe. What we are doing
today will have as much impact on our future as the invention of the telephone or TV, or
man's first landing on the moon. If I may borrow an analogy from the space age, let me say
that Net Day is one small step for California's schools. And it is one quantum leap into our
future.
The beauty of this moment is that we are meeting the challenges of the age of
technology the same way this country has always faced its future-- united, together, as one
America. There is no generation gap between the old-fashioned American values of hard
work, teamwork, and optimism and our forward progress into the 21st century. As I said in
the State of the Union, the era of big government is over. But we must not go back to the era
when our people were left to fend for themselves. We need more of the kind of personal and
corporate responsibility that has made Net Day a reality.
When I came to San Francisco last September, we issued a challenge to California to
connect at least 20 percent of your schools to the information superhighway by the end of this
school year. And we knew that the only way this would work is if we mobilized a massive
volunteer effort, involving the corporate community, teachers, students, and engineers from
this state's leading high-tech companies. I am happy to tell you that California has answered
the call -- big time. More than 13,000 of you have signed up to help us begin wiring your
schools today. That is a remarkable response. If anyone doubts that Americans still care
about their communities, the education of their children, and the future of this country -- they
should be here today to see what I see. You are what's right with America. And what you
are doing reminds us that we live in an age of great possibility if people are willing to work
together to make the most their lives.
More Americans will have more chances to live up to their dreams that at any time in
our nation's history. New technologies are opening up prospects for vast new opportunities
that will bring greater prosperity. A growing marketplace is putting a premium on the kind of
1
�ingenuity and skills Americans must have if we are going to move forward together in the 21st
century. And the key to all this is education. We must make sure that all of our children have
access to the educational opportunities of the present and the future. That means high
standards for our schools, and high expectations for our students. It means opening the doors
of college to every student who wants to enter them. It means supporting efforts like our
School-to-Work programs which help young people who don't go on to college right away find
good jobs while they continue their education. It means support for AmeriCorps, which is
now giving 25,000 young Americans a chance to solve community problems while earning
money for college. It means challenging schools to impart the basic values that keep our
society together, through character education, and the teaching of good values and good
citizenship. We are doing all these things. But we have to do more.
That's why I have proposed giving $1000 merit scholarships to the top five percent of
every high school graduating class. I have also proposed expanding work study to include a
million students so more people can work their way through college. And if we are going to
cut taxes, what better way to do it than to give a tax deduction of up to $10,000 to every
American family for the cost of college tuition. That is the right way to cut taxes.
But we know that none of this will matter unless we bring the information and
technology revolution into every classroom in America. In the State of the Union, I called on
Americans to join this national mission to make every child technologically literate. We want
to place quality computers in every classroom and every library in our country by the dawn of
the 21st century. We want trained teachers to bring those computers to life. And we want
creative software to stretch our minds and our horizons. We know this can make a major
difference in the education of our children.
Last month I visited a school system in New Jersey that at one time was so bad, it was
on the verge of a state takeover. But it was revitalized by a partnership effort, much like the
one here, to put computers in every classroom and give children and their parents access to the
excitement and potential of the information superhighway. Today, with computers in the
classroom and at home, linked together, homework is being done in a new way; classroom
lessons have taken on a new life; and parents and teachers are keeping in touch by e-mail.
Test scores have gone up and truancy and dropout rates have gone down.
All over this country we are seeing the benefits of this new technology in our schools.
Over 130 recent academic studies have shown clearly that the use of technology in support of
instruction has led to higher achievement in language and art and math and social studies, and,
of course, in science. We have dramatic proof of the power of technology to expand
opportunity for our young people. We have to harness that _power and spread it throughout
this country.
I can think of no better place for us to begin than here in California -- the state that
leads the world in technological innovation. Until now, this leadership has too often stopped
2
�at the classroom door. California ranks 45th in the nation in the ratio of students to
computers. While many suburban children have access to computers in their homes, other
children in rural areas and inner cities pass their school years without coming close to the
information superhighway. The longer they are kept away, the less chance they have of
building good lives in a global economy.
Thanks to the dedicated companies and individuals gathered here today, all that is about
to change. You are taking the lead. The rest of America should follow.
And everyone should note that you are doing this through a partnership, not through
big government. Companies such as AT&T, MCI, Netcom, and AOL are providing free
Internet access. Pacific Bell is providing more than 1,000 wiring kits. Other companies are
providing free software. And hundreds of other companies are sponsoring individual schools.
Corporate responsibility is not dead in California. It is alive and well. And I want to thank all
of you for keeping it that way.
Today is just a beginning. We will not finish our work in one day. There will be
other Net Days until our job is complete. I urge more citizens to do what you are doing -- get
involved, make a contribution, be a part of history. Your children and grandchildren will look
back on this day and thank you for taking this important step to secure their future. And the
rest of America will thank you for showing them the way.
A little while later this morning, I will participate in the first hook-up here at Ygnzcio
Valley High School. And others of you will do the same all over this state. I want to thank
all of you for participating in this historic event. And so, without further ado, let the future
begin.
Thank you and God bless you all.
3
�THE WHITE HOUSE
Office of the Press Secretary
For Immediate Release
March 6, 1996
REMARKS BY THE PRESIDENT
AT PRESENTAT.ION OF THE 1995
MALCOLM BALDRIGE QUALITY AWARDS
The Roosevelt Room
12:10 P.M. EST
THE PRESIDENT: Thank you. Let me say how delighted I
am to be here today to be a part of this again.
I want to begin by
thanking a few people. First I'd like to thank Secretary Brown and
all the others who are here from the Commerce Department for, I
think, giving this country the best Commerce Department it has had in
many, many decades. And I thank them for that.
Mr. Houghton and Mr. Bradshaw, I thank you and all your
team for coming here today. And we want to especially welcome Mr ..
Houghton's brother, Congress's most prominent musician -- (laughter)
Congressman Amo Houghton from New York.
I thank the Baldrige Foundation.
Its chair, Bob Allen
is here -- thank you, sir, for your work.
I want to thank the people
in the White House who are my eyes and ears in outreach to the
American business community -- Mack McLarty and Alexis Herman.
Let me say, I have some remarks here I decided not to
give because I want to just tell you a little bit from the heart what
this means to me. When I became President I had worked for 12 years
as a governor, starting in a state with an unemployment rate that was
3 percent above the national average, and that never got down to the
national average but one month until 1992, the last year I served.
We decided that we had to build a partnership with business. We
decided that America would not do well unless manufacturing came
back, and we decided to put a special emphasis on the whole quality
management approach, to make people who were committed to that feel
welcome in our state. In the 1980s when there was a dramatic drop
in manufacturing employment nationwide, it went up in our state.
And we were proud of it, and we worked on it.
So I am very familiar with the Baldrige Award -- with
the memory of Secretary Baldrige and all those in both parties who
have supported this award since its inception. And I just want to
say a 'few words about what the significance of this is.
There's a lot of discussion today about whether things
are good or bad in the American economy. The truth is, there's a lot
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And evecyone should note that you are doing this through a partncn>hip, not through big
government. Sun Microsystems has helped organize NetDay, and more than 10 percent of its
employees are volunteering today. Companles such as AT&T. MCI. Nctcom. America Online
and the Scholastic Network are offering free aCCCS$ to the Internet and other on-line services.
Pacific Bell is providing high-speed telephone lines to schools and more than 1,000 wiring
kits. Apple is donating computers. Netscape and Microsoft are providing free software. And
hundreds of other companies are sponsoring individual schools.
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�·Connecting every classroom in America to.the information superhighway will open up
opportunities and possibilities for the children of today, and for future generations. The
internet will enable America's students to learn about the history of our country, and our
world, as well as give them up to .the minute news and information from around the globe,
preparing them for tomorrow's challenges. The internet will give our students access to
libraries, newspapers and magazines from around the world, it will provide them access ~o
historical documents like the Declaration of Independence as well as archives from countries
worldwide. Students will be able to prepare reports and projects with all of their resqurces
right at their fmgertips. Everything.from sending e-mail.to myself and Vice President Gore
to the national flag of Brazil will be available to our children and serve as a gateway to their
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TO THE STUDENTS AT ELEANOR ROOSEVELT HIGH SCHOOL
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THE PRESIDENT: Tharik you very rimch. ·Thank you, Mark, for your fine introduction·
and for your fine example,. and for reminding ,us about why this is an i~portant day for the
United States. Thank you, Dr. Boarman, for recalling my previous trip .to Eleanor Roosevelt.
That .was a great day'. · I must say, when I was there theh talking about the national' education
goals, I didn't have any idea I'd be back here a few years later in this role to discuss this issue.
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I'd like to thank the members of Congress who are here, and my good friend, Secretary
Cisneros, Governor Glendening and Lt. Governor Townsend; your County Executive Wayne '
Curry, who was with me just yesterday in the White JI.ouse telling me about how this is the best
county in America:. (Applause.) I thank Reverend Jackson and all the people from the
entertainment community and the other lea<;lers who are here from across America. today this .
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I also want you to know that there are two graduates of this high school who work in the
'White House --one of my assoc~ate counsels, Cheryl Mills, and Andy Blocker, who works in
Legisl.ative Affairs. So I am a direct beneficiary of Eleanor Roosevelt High School, and l thank
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When I leave you here we're going over to the c(mference with the delegates, but I
wanted to come here with the Vice President and·with General McCaffrey because, really, this
·conference is about you. And,. frankly, this.is a day when I wish that as President, it weren't
my job to give a speech, that I could just spend the next hour or two sitting arou~d visiting with
a number o( you and listening to· you and .talking with you abput'your future, because we're here
to try to do what 1 we can to make your, lives safer and your future stronger.
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You probably don't think about. this very much; but already ,in yom; lives you have
acquired different roles and. different responsibilities, and they give you-different perspectives.
You are students and you're·stillchildren -.,.you're sons or daughters:· You may be-brothers-or
sisters. If you have an association with organizations; you're in the ROJ'C or in an athletic club
or in the band, you have obligations, doubtless, to your friends that have become more and more
· important to you as yoil get'older.
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That's the position.that I find myself intoday. I want to speak with you about this whole
issue· of crime and violence and dnigs from the perspective of a President, .the head of our
· nation's government, a citizen who understands that much o.f this work nee~s to be done in '
grass-roots citizens' community-based organizations, ·and the father· of a high school-aged
daughter. -1 see this whol~ issue in terms ~fwhat's good for families and what's good for the
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You're old enough now that you're being confronted on a regular' basis with tough :
decisions, where you have,to choose right from wrong, dangerous from safe .. What you may
not know is that the decisions that you make also may be good or bad not only for .this
community,' but for your entire country
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.President to try to. create more opportunity for. ym{ and a more secure environment; the decisions ·
. that we all have to make as citizens to try to improve.your ,future and your.pre'sent; and, most
important, the decisions that I hope you will make to choose life over death, to choose what is
· r~ght for you over. plainly what is wrong.
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You· are coming of age at the moment of greatest possibility in all of American his~ory, ·
where young people who are prepared for it will be able to have- more options to live out the
future of their .dreams than any prev'ious generation. And the technological revolution which is .
still a mystery to me is something that many of yourjust take for granted. It can be the most
democratic instrument in our history~ It can offer enomious opportunities to children who not
so many years ago.could neve~ . had had them just because .they came up
.iri poor households.
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The ~ther day the Vice President and I were in a school district in New Jersey that is in .
a poor neighborhood where most of the children come from immigrant familie~, the per capita ..
income is way below the state average --and New.Jersey is one of the two or three richest states ·
in America. The. school district was performing .so. poorly a few years ago that the ·state almost
·had to come in and close it and take' it over.
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But they got new leadership, major companies came in with commitment to help .. They
put computers all the classroom~· fo~ the kids, and then they evep had computer hook-ups in
. the homes ·of. these poor parents, many of whom had only been in our country for a.few years ..
.Within a: matter .Of weeks, immigrant parents were e-mailing the principal 'to see how their kids
were doing and whether. they were doin,g their homework. Within two or three years, this
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�distfid that was on the verge of failure and all these poor children on the v·erge of being denied
the Ame~ican Dream, had attendance rates and graduation rates and, most important of all, test ·
scores above the-state -average in one of the wealthiest states in this country.
. That can happen to AmeriCa. That is. the technological age ~ere are living in. But the
interesting thing about it, and the perplexing thing about it, is thattechnology is like every other
tool of human beings -- that's all it is. And in order for technology to work, it still has to be
used by people who have good ·values, a strong background ahd who choose life, who choose
their future, who choose· what is right for themselves and their country. ·
. Our nation has a lot of.challenges that we have. to meet together if we're going to make
sure the American Dream is available for all young pe9ple without regard to their background,
. if we're going to see that our country remains the strongest country in the world, if we're going
to see this country come together instead of being divided by race, by region, by income.
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better job of strengthening all families and giving all children a chance of a good childhood ·
through thfngs like better nutrition programs 'and inimunization programs and Head Start for· kids
·who· need it. We have to provide excellence in educational opportunities for a lifetime now, not
even jl,lst for children kindergarten through .12th grade -- through things like a better student loan
· program and more college scho'Iarships and the national,serviCe·program and the program that
first brought me.here, the national education goals, giving schoolsthe grass-roots tools they need
to meet high national standards of educational attainment for all of our young people; through
ecOn<:,?mic strategies to create more high-wage jobsin the places that don't have them. Wy've
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But in the end, if you think about it, we cannot succeed in any of these ch~llenge~ unless
first we deal with the problems of crime and violence and gangs and drugs~ For, in the absence
of safety' people are not free.
I don't know how m~my of you saw _.:. I'm sure many of you did ~~ the gripping, painful
pictures coming across our airwaves from the Middle East in the last few days,. where inriocent
children were killed by suicide bombers bent on destroying the peace process in the Middle East.
But I couldn't help --I was so moved by the 'interviews with children, with young people. And
it struck me just so clearly there that Israel is a very great democracy, but if every child goes ·
to bed .at night afraid,. it is not a free country. ·
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without by a fear that. you can't even walk down the street without looking over your shoulder,
_ this is not a free country and you are not a free person. And you can never be everything that
' you. ought to believe unless you are free. ·Part 'of it involves your choice to choose life and a
future. Part of it involves what we can all do together to make sure tha! nothing takes that·
. future, nothing. ~akes that life away from you .
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your mission to decide what kind of person you're going to be; our mission to decide what we're
going to do to make sure you get the chance to become that person. And in our country it still
means -- even though the cdme rate is down, even though drug use is way down from where
it was at ,its peak -- we still paye a lot of work to do.
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We have to get rid of the guns that turn arguments into terrible tragedies, like the one
that took the life of C.J.. Brown. We have to take back our stret!ts so that mothers and fathers ·
don't. have to be afraid when a son or daughter is waiting .for a ride after work, like Julie
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So that's why I want to talk to you· about this. And I have a real perspective, I think,
about the whole drug and crime and violence problem. I grew up in the '60s when most people
your age, when I was your age, they just sort of got into this business. They didn't really
believe drugs were dangerous until it nearly destroyed our generation. · I heard General
McCaffrey, who served with great distinction and valor in Vietnam, talking about yesterday how
in our generation when we were younger, the United States military was nearly destroyed by it.
I ha~ a brother who nearly lost' his life because of a drug problem .. I 'know a lot about this.
And we have seen this i~cr~dible progress in tl;le drug issue in the last several years
where drug usage has gone way done, still going down among people 18 to 34, but now casual
drug use going up ·again among people under 18. We have to stop. that.
We see the crime rate going down in AmeriCa, the rriurder rate going down, the viole~ce
rat~ going down, but casual violence among people under 18 going up again. There are people.
in this conference with me today who became friends of mine who were once members of gangs
and devoted the rest oitheir lives to stopping youn'g people from making that mistake, trying
to get them to choose life. , And we have to do that.
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use goes down.among people who are under 18, .that violence continues to .go d9wn among
people who are under 18. ·We do not want to lose any more children. We don't want to rob
any mo~e people of their future. We have to fight these things whenever and wherever we see
them.
Let me begin by saying that one .of the most disturbing. fi.ndings in a lot of the national
surveys is that more and more young people in your age group-- and maybe you're among them
--seem to believe that drugs are not dangerous any,more. That is factually wrong. It's not only ) .
wrong about cocaine, it's not only wrong. about methamphetamine; it's wrong about marijuana.
It is just 'wrong. We know that the toxic content of marij~uina alone, for example, is roughly
three times greater than it was 30 years ago. It is not true that they are not dangerous. They
are illegal, and, therefore, wr~:mg, but they are also dangerous.
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people of this country who happen td be under 18 to start seeing, drug use go up ag~in' and
violence go up again when the future for you is the brightest future any gro.up ·Qf Americans
have ever known, if you can make the transition into this new high-tech age.
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have to make the right decision first. · And I want to say, one of the reasons that we wanted to
come here to have this conference at Roosevelt instead of some hotel or government building
is because of what. you have done at this school; because the students, the teachers and the,
parents of this school are doing such a remarkable job of fighting drugs and.violence. They're
not a perfect stranger here, drugs and violence, but this community has. come tqgether to send
them packing.· And I thank you for that. The way 'you~re doing it is a lesson fQr all of.
America:
I've spent a lot_of time saying what the government can do and what the government
cannot do. We· cannot solve the drug problem from Washington. ·We can't starrip out youth
·violence· just by passing laws .. We can't even do it 'by giving resources .to local communities
unless they are properly used. Each of us has our own role. to play.
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Our government has a -resp<;msibility which we have tried to fulfill. The Crime Bill we
fought for in 1994 is helping to put 100,000 more police offiCers on the street. That helps to
deter crime and it is .working everywhere it's be_ing'used aggressively.·
We banned 19 kinds ofassault _weapons, and you've already heard that we -passed the
Brady Bill to require a five-day waiting period before .people can buy handguns. And tens of
. thousands of people who have criminal records now have failed to get guns. This is a safer
country because of that.
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We passed the "three strikes and you're out". law- to put the most dangerous criminals
behind bars for life. We are fighting against-domestic violence as never before because of that
Crime Bill. And we're trying to help thousands of schools to fight drugs-and violence with drug
education and gang ,prevention and increased security. We're supporting programs like the
DARE program, ,which I think is doing a wonderful. amount of good in elementary schools
throughout our country: I know that that can work.·
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. handgun except when supervised by an adult. Last year I fought for a- law requiring every state
to expel,any student who brings a gun to a school for a year -- no excuses.
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You have a zero tolerance policy for guns here at Roosevelt.. We might to have a zero
tolerance for guns-in every school in America. You should never worry about-your safety when
you're in school. (Applause.)
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people to begin smoking. Cigarette .smoking is now rapidly becoming the-greatest cause of
future health dangers to young people in America. Three thousa~d children start smoking every
day, even though it's~ illegal in every state; 1',000 will have there lives shortened as a result.·
. Don't let that happen to you. If you don't S:J;Iloke, don't start. If you-started, stop. ·.It could be
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· You heard General McCaffrey a few moments ago. The natibn.al governn1ent has a
responsibility that is embodied by General McCaffr~y to do everything· we can to try to stop the .
flow of drugs into our country and to try to deal. with it after it comes in 'our country to try to'
help people who have already fallen victims to drug abuse .. We'.re doing everything we can in·
that regard.
We also, in·the Crime Bill, gave coinmunities some funds that l'in struggling with the
Congress to preserve now, not only to tell our young people they should say no to drugs, but ,
to give young people in difficult circumstances more things to say yes to, more oppor~nities to
be involved in positive activities. and engaged in things that will help to build their lives. That
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government cannot do t.his alone. That's why I say the things you:Ve done here may count for
· more. than anything else. I was given some notes be~ore I came over here about: your Grad
Night program, which I think is a remarkable thing. Every school in the country ought to do
that:. Your parents know that peer pressure to use drugs and alcohol is always strong,' especially
on graduation night .. · But they want .you to celebrate your achievement, not end your life. And
I think it's a very impressive thing that businesses have. supported this/parents have supported
. it --every year they 'throw you an all-nightparty. I d9n't think it's advisable every week; .but
I think once. a year it's a pretty good idea. (Laughter.)
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For the bene~it of the press and the others who are here, the seniors come to school at
11 :OO··p.m., give their keys and bags to their. parents, load up the buses --_they don't come back
until 6:00 a.I:fi. in' the morning. They can spend the night swimniing, playing basketball,
dancing, eating all kinds of food .. They even hilVe a chance to win a car. I wonder if that gets:
the! participation rate up. (Laughter.)
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amazing thing. That;s an amazing thing. (Applause.) That's the kind ~f community spirit and
commitment we need all across this country. ·And today;· I want you to know that .we're getting
'that kind of community spirit in other ways as well. Working with the Drug Czar's Office, the
. l~aders ofa l)lajor American industry have COme together to try !O dq their part. .
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Today' I am proud to announce that the 15 major pharmaceutical companies in Am~rica
are launching a $33-million campaign to put the kind of drug education material that parents
need in the hands of400,000 d9ctors, so that they can give it to parents and we can work to stop
this problem earlier. (Applause.)
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We have some pharmaceutical executives who are here with us. today. I'd like to ask
them to stand up and be recognized. Where are they? Here they ~re. Let'sgive.them a hand.
Thank you very much, gentlemen. Thank you. (Applause:)
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All of us who are parents have a big role to play. We are the beginning of ho\\:' children
learn right from wrong. ·we are the beginning of what children believe about drugs and whether
they're safe or unsafe, how wrong it is to break the law. But in the end, it still comes down to
· all ·of you' and yout counterparts all across America. ·
I will say agairi, you have a lot of 'responl)ibilities. You have responsibilities to students.
You have responsibilities as children, responsi]?ilities as members of various 9rganizations.
Your most important responsibility is still to you. Your most import responsibility is to choos~ ·
life. Your most important responsibility is to make the most of your own life. As my wife
always says when we· have a big argument around our house,' life is not a dress rehearsal.. That
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when I tell you you shouldn't do it, you look at ine and say, look at that,-- he may be President,
but he's still 50 years .old and has gray hair. It's easy for him to say. (Laughter.) I know
that's what you must be thinking. And you're right. It is easy for me to sa'y. But, believe it
or not, all of us· who -- adults who a,re here ·today were once young, and we're· not entirely
without our memories .
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T~ere are things we. can· do-- things 1 can do as ·President, things these pharmaceutical
executives can do, things General McCaffrey and the Vice President can do, things the schools
can do. But in the end; when you look at this from my~ perspective, when what I reaUy want
to do with the presidency is to make sun! every American has a chance to live out their dreams,
I realize that if large numbers of our young people give _up on their dreams, nothing I do ~ill
·permit me to ·succeed. And I know there are other people that have a lot more influence than
I do. A lot of, these entertainers that you cheered for -- you may listen to them more. My
friend, Charles Rayoff --(phonetiC)-- from Los Angeles, he used to be in a gang, now spends
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So I say to. you if.l closing, I believe that your future can be the brightest future any
generation of Americans have ever enjoyed. I .believe that the kinds of things you're going to,
be able to do. because of t~e explosion of information and technology, because the world is
drawing closer together, because America is -- look around this room here. This is rthe most
successful, multiracial, multiethnic democracy in all of human history. This is a great thing.
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The rest of us,· we'll keep doing our part. I want to say a word about Reverend Jackson ·
-- you clapped when he was introduced~ A long time before either one. of us knew we'd be
sitting here, 20 years ago-- 20 years.ago 'next year was the first time I went with Jesse· Jackson
into a school to hear him give a speech to young people about staying off drugs. Twenty years
ago, long before it was the fashionable thing to do he was out there doing. it. I thank you for
tliat. Twenty years ago this year. (Applause,) Thank you .
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right thing. I get .tired of hearing only the bad ·things about Amefica's younger generation ..
Most o:( the younger generation is pretty great, and that's.why, we're doing as well as
are.
I understand that. (Applause.) But if you're in qoubt, don't do it. If you're in trouble, get
help. If you're doing the right thing, don't be afraid to he a role model,_ don't be afraid to be
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the problems that are afflicting childhood, if we give our children back their. childhood; if when
you turn on the· television at night and you see some act of violence on the· news, you are
surprised instead of just deaden.ed, well, that's what .I always see.
We've got to make violence the exception, not the rule. We've got to make drug. abuse
the exceptio'n, not the ruie. We've got to make the rule what I see out here wh~n I look inyour
faces: ·young people who are committed to themselves, committed to their families, committed
to their communities, committed to their own future.: .Choose life and we~ll be all right
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March 5, 1996
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President Clinton and VIce President Gore Participate in NET DAY -- "Electronic
Bamraising." On March 9th, President Clinton, Vice President Gore and members of the
Cabinet will visit California schools to participate in NctDay96, a grassroots, volunteer
effort to connect as many California classrooms to the "information superhighway'' as
possible. The President has called NetDay an "electronic bamraising!'
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20 Percent of California's Schools Wired By The End Of This School Year. The goal
of NctDay is to connect classrooms in at least 20 percent of California's schools by the end
of the year. March 9th will be the kick-off for these activities~ other events will be
scheduled later in 1996.
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President Clinton Has Been One Of The Driving Forces Behind NetDay. The President
helped to kickstart NetDay, first proposed by John Gage (Sun Microsystems) and Michael
Kauffman (KQED), by bringing together high-tech industry leaders for a meeting ou
educational technology in California schools on September 21J 1995. The President also
highlighted NctDay in his State of the Union address, and has sent letters to California's
largest employers, urging them to participate.
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The response to the President's challenge has been overwhelming:
As of March 4th, over 13,000 parents, engineers and other volunteers have signed up
to help on NetDay. They will go to a local school to connect the library and at least
5 other classrooms in the school with inte.mal wiring.
Companies such as MCI, Nctcom, AT&T and AOL have agreed to provide free
Internet access, Pacific Bell is providing more than lJOOO wiring kits, other
companies are providing free software, and hundreds of other companies have
sponsored individual schools.
NetDay has also been endorsed by the mayors of .LA, San Jose, San Francisco, and
Oakland, the California School Employees Association1 and Delaine Eastin, State
Superintendent of Public Instruction.
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This Is The First Activity Of Its Kind Organized On The Internet. Volunteers sign up
on-line, indicating their level of expertise. They can also see who else has volunteered to
help that school. An on-line, color-coded map of California, available down to the street
level, allows people to sec which schools have volunteers. Teachers can find out which
companies are offering free or discounted Internet access or software.
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NetDay Also Advances The 4 Goals Of The President's $2 Billion Technology Literacy
Challenge, Unveiled In Union City, New Jersey On February 15th. The President
believes we must make progress in four areas: connections, computers, teacher training, and
educational software, and that the private sector must be a partner. NetDay helps advance
the goal of connecting all classrooms to the information superhighway by the year 2000.
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REMARKS BY PRESIDENT WILLIAM JEFFERSON CLINTON
NET DAY VOLUNTEER RALLY
CALIFORNIA
MARCH 9, 1996
Acknowledgments: Vice President Gore for introduction; student; John Gage; Michael
Kaufman; Senator Boxer; Representative George Miller;
It is great to be back here in California. The Vice President and I have looked forward
to this day with great anticipation. Net Day is a symbol of the greater technological revolution
that is sweeping, not only this country, but the world. Bill Gates, the founder of Microsoft, in
his book, The Road Ahead, says that the digital chip is the biggest change in information
technology in 500 years, since Gutenberg first printed the Bible in Europe. What we are doing
today will have as much impact on our future as the invention of the telephone or TV, or
man's first landing on the moon. If I may borrow an analogy from the space age, let me say
that Net Day is one small step for California's schools. And it is one quantum leap into our
future.
The beauty of this moment is that we are meeting the challenges of the age of
technology the same way this country has always faced its future-- united, together, as one
America. There is no generation gap between the old-fashioned American values of hard
work, teamwork, and optimism and our forward progress into the 21st century. As I said in
the State of the Union, the era of big government is over. But we must not go back to the era
when our people were left to fend for themselves. We need more of the kind of personal and
corporate responsibility that has made Net Day a reality.
When I came to San Francisco last September, we issued a challenge to California to
connect at least 20 percent of your schools to the information superhighway by the end of this
school year. And we knew that the only way this would work is if we mobilized a massive
volunteer effort, involving the corporate community, teachers, students, and engineers from
this state's leading high-tech companies. I am happy to tell you that California has answered
the call -- big time. More than 13,000 of you have signed up to help us begin wiring your
schools today. That is a remarkable response. If anyone doubts that Americans still care
about their communities, the education of their children, and the future of this country -- they
should be here today to see what I see. You are what's right with America. And what you
are doing reminds us that we live in an age of great possibility if people are willing to work
together to make the most their lives.
More Americans will have more chances to live up to their dreams that at any time in
our nation's history. New technologies are opening up prospects for vast new opportunities
that will bring greater prosperity. A growing marketplace is putting a premium.on the kind of
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century. And the key to all this is education. We must make sure that all of our children have
access to the educational opportunities of the present and the future. That means high
standards for our schools, and high expectations for our students. It means opening the doors
of college to every student who wants to enter them. It means supporting efforts like our
School-to-Work programs which help young people who don't go on to college right away find
good jobs while they continue their education. It means support for AmeriCorps, which is
now giving 25,000 young Americans a chance to solve community problems while earning
money for college. It means challenging schools to impart the basic values that keep our
society together, through character education, and the teaching of good values and good
citizenship. We are doing all these things. But we have to do more.
That's why I have proposed giving $1000 merit scholarships to the top five percent of
every high school graduating class. I have also proposed expanding work study to include a
million students so more people can work their way through college. And if we are going to
cut taxes, what better way to do it than to give a tax deduction of up to $10,000 to every
American family for the cost of college tuition. That is the right way to cut taxes.
But we know that none of this will matter unless we bring the information and
technology revolution into every classroom in America. In the State of the Union, I called on
Americans to join this national mission to make every child technologically literate. We want
to place quality computers in every classroom and every library in our country by the dawn of
the 21st century. We want trained teachers to bring those computers to life. And we want
creative software to stretch our minds and our horizons. We know this can make a major
difference in the education of our children.
Last month I visited a school system in New Jersey that at one time was so bad, it was
on the verge of a state takeover. But it was revitalized by a partnership effort, much like the
one here, to put computers in every classroom and give children and their parents access to the
excitement and potential of the information superhighway. Today, with computers in the
classroom and at home, linked together, homework is being done in a new way; classroom
lessons have taken on a new life; and parents and teachers are keeping in touch by e-mail.
Test scores have gone up and truancy and dropout rates have gone down.
All over this country we are seeing the benefits of this new technology in our schools.
Over 130 recent academic studies have shown clearly that the use of technology in support of
instruction has led to higher achievement in language and art and math and social studies, and,
of course, in science. We have dramatic proof of the power of technology to expand
opportunity for our young people. We have to harness that power and spread it throughout
this country.
I can think of no better place for us to begin than here in California -- the state that
leads the world in technological innovation. Until now, this leadership has too often stopped
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at the classroom door. California ranks 45th in the nation in the ratio of students to
computers. While many suburban children have access to computers in their homes, other
children in rural areas and inner cities pass their school years without coming close to the
information superhighway. The longer they are kept away, the less chance they have of
building good lives in a global economy.
Thanks to the dedicated companies and individuals gathered here today, all that is about
to change. You are taking the lead. The rest of America should follow.
And everyone should note that you are doing this through a partnership, not through
big government. Companies such as AT&T, MCI, Netcom, and AOL are providing free
Internet access. Pacific Bell is providing more than 1,000 wiring kits. Other companies are
providing free software. And hundreds of other companies are sponsoring individual schools.
Corporate responsibility is not dead in California. It is alive and well. And I want to thank all
of you for keeping it that way.
Today is just a beginning. We will not finish our work in one day. There will be
other Net Days until our job is complete. I urge more citizens to do what you are doing -- get
involved, make a contribution, be a part of history. Your children and grandchildren will look
back on this day and thank you for taking this important step to secure their future. And the
rest of America will thank you for showing them the way.
A little while later this morning, I will participate in the first hook-up here at Ygnzcio
Valley High School. And others of you will do the same all over this state. I want to thank
all of you for participating in this historic event. And so, without further ado, let the future
begin.
Thank you and God bless you all.
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officials at the ultrasecret National Security Agency (an early and stillimportant Sun customer); swaps ideas with software nerds in Japan; reviews
product strategies with the hard-nosed executives at Sun's Monntain View,
California headquarters. His most important job, he says, is ''keeping
the smartest people at Sun thinking, talking, and working together."
At the moment, though. Gage's thoughts
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one for every K-u school in California-in
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NetDay¢. Gage is organizing an anny of up
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the World Wide Web. The larger reason is
that Gage is more than just a scientific visionary or business executive. He's a rabble rouser,
an agent provocateur, a product of the 196os
who never lost his activist fire or democratic
values. Gage was active in the Berkeley Free
Speech Movement. He was a California orgapizer for rhe Robert ~dem:i:D ca!nJ:?aign and a delegate to the 1968 Chicago ~on·
~He coordiria ted the national traveling
campaign for McGovern for President. "Do
you remember that book, The Bays on tht Bus?"
Gage asks. "Well, that was my bus!"
These· days, "Power to the People" sounds
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But it's a way of life at young companies like
Sun-where information flows freely and
people aren't afraid to express their opinions-and in the explosion of activity around
the Internet. For Gage, the Net-and in par·
ticular, the World Wu:ie Web-is an electronic
frontier that marries technology and democracy, the last best hope for an economy built
around grassroots participation and personal expression. 'The Web represents the biggest
explosion in publishing and distance colla:E:
o.!:.!.rion in history." he says. "It's the enabling
mechanism for fast companies."
-wt1ere better to pursue this-vision than
Sun (HTTP:/ fwww.suN.tOM), one of the most
"connected" organizations on the planet?
Its hardware products account for more than
one-third of the world's Web servers. Its java
programming language is the honest thing
since the Netscape Navigator. Sun's rs.ooo
people generate up to 2 million e-mail messages per day. The company's 1,000 internal
servers store 250,000 Web and other electronic
pages. By mid-1996, all U.S. employees will be
equipped with desktop videoconferencing.
The ethos is simple: people should be able to
communicate with anyone, anywhere, at any
time, through any media imaginable.
All of which leaves john Gage thoroughly in his element. "This whole thing has a
'6os flavor to it," he says. "There's a pop·
ulist ethic. You don't like the news? Make
some of your own. Put it on the Net."
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\Ve ·,·c here to ton· abmtt business, bat at the
moment Ollf of your p!LS.IiOll.S is wiring the Cal·
ifomia school system for Internet access. Do~s
Net[)ay96 offer !essol1.5for business?
.· · ,. NetDay is only possible because of e·mail
and rhe Web. It has no office, no telephone
number, no fax number, no paid Staff. lr's a
totally decentralized virrual company. We
don't order anyone to do anything. We give
people an opportuniry, and they choose ·
whether to embrace the opportunity. People
can visit our Web page (HTTP:/ fwwW.NET
DAY96.COM), decide if they're imerested, iden·
tify the school where they want to volunteer,
tell us about their skills, and become part of
the company. The best way to organize roo,aoo
people is to let them organize themselves.
And there's a message in th~u for organizing companus?
The basic message is that the network creates the company-whether that company is
NetDay or Sun Microsystems. Your e-mail
flow determines whether you're really part of
the organization; the mailing lists you're on
say a lot about the power you have. I've been
part of the java group at Sun for four or five
years. Recently. by mistake, someone removed
my. name (JOHN.GAGE@ENG.SUN.COM) from the
java e-maillist. My flow of information just
stopped-and 1stopped being part of the orga·
nization, no maner what the org chart said.
I got back on in a hurry
The best way ro understand what"s happening in a company is to get to its alias filethe master list of all its e-mail lists. Before the
Web, I used the all as file as my main mechanism for knowing what was going on at Sun.
I didn't need anyone to tell me when we were
working on a new chip project. Suddenly
there's a new e-mail list, Sun Blazer, and I
know what's happening. I didn't need anyone to teU me java was gettinghot. There
used to be 35 people on the java alias list, then
there were uo. Something's happening.
And people create their own private aliases. I have one calledjavaBoss. It lists the people I believe are the real players in java, my
personal view on the power structUre. They'~
. the people I send messages ro. A fellow named
Geoff Baehr is on my JavaBoss list even though
he works in a completely different part of
Sun. But he's one of the drivers. You'd never know it from the org chart.
You're suggesting evL"T)'one can develop their
own organization chart, their personal view of
who does what at the campany?
That's right. And then there's a second
round. Let's say I mail you a· message about
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along with everyone else on my Java Boss list.
Suddenly the CEO sees who I think should
get this informarion, who I think is important. I remember bumping inro Scott at a
conference in Geneva. Java is really heating
up, he's gerting lots of mail. and everybody
is copying a guy named Mike Clary. Scott
asks me, "Who's Mike Clary?" He's never
met him, Mike works with [Sun cofounder)
Billjoy in Aspen. There's a new, virtual organization taking shape below the CEO.
That's imporranr. Because he is on a lot
of e-mail lists, Mike Clary has been recognized
by his peers as an important person. It's like
the science citation index. This affects people's
care=. If your name is on e-rnails flying around
the company, that's good. You're getting far
berter e>.-posure than in any annual review.
That doesn't mean peopk can't play politics. E-mail is a Rorschach test. People who
are masters of back-office politics still play
Iars of games They prune rheir lisrs ro limit distribution. They time-stamp messages so
when you're at a meeting, they can rell you
exacrly when rhey sem the memo you're supposed ro have read. They are legalistic in their
style. E-mail breeds people like this roo.
Will the spread of World Wide Web technolo~· inside companies-intranets-make traditional e-nu1illess important?
The Web is a step beyond e-mail. Purting
up a Web page means you have something to
say And the way you put it rogether says a lot
about who you are-not just the words bur
also the style, and your links to other pages.
E-mail and the Web are merging. lc means
I can e-mail you a hypertext page which,
·when you bring it up on your machine, has
links to other documents, other people, other computers in other companies. We've
gone from "dead" e-mail to '1ive" e-mail.
People won't just send messages anymore.
They'll send their view of the world, and
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:··radio show. This month's featured guests are senior technologists Bill ;Joy and Eric. Schmidt, two of ·.
,';~the figures most closeiy associated with Sun's Java programming language. McNtaly rounds out
:.: the program with business updates, pep talk~. and surprise phone calls employees. This month's. ·:·
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If this sounds like a drive-time broadcast by a wacky FM deejay, It's not too far off the mark. In
fad, the monthly show goes by the name "The McNealy Report" and it's broadcasfover WSUN Radio.
But it doesn't travel over the airwaves. In keeping with Sun's commitment to the Net, the show is
digitized and stored on an lnte~nal Web server. Employees can visit the site, click on the show (or past
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regular appearances on John Gage's bimonthly television show. The format and tone of Gage's
Sunergy broadcast couldn't be more different from his CEO's program. Sunergy revolves around earnest
(and unabashedly futuristic) panel discussions on topics such as "Cyberjoclteying in the 21st Century." Its guests include digiti! celebrities such as Apple founder Steve Jobs and Web guru Marc Andreessen.
It's PBS to McNealy's ESPN.
"Scott's view of the world is wins and losses," Gage explains. "It's hockey, it's fast-paced, and
at the end you either score the goal or you don't. That's also the pace of his radio broadcast. Suner_~
gy is the counterpoint to that. The banner is: 4 Here are some important technology directions.
Learn to evaluate what is valuable among the innovations arising worldwide."'
Sunergy is beamed via satellite to roughly 1,500 downlink sites in 40 countries and·gets an
average of 100,000 viewers per show. It's also transmitted via the Internet's Multicast Bacltbone
to computers with the processing horsepower and bandwidth to receive live video over the Net. The
broadcast is closed-captioned as well-not to assist the hearing-impaired, but to support an indexing system for people who want to review past Sunergy programs. Soon, interested viewers will be
able to call up a tape, search It by keyword, and see segments on specific subjects.
The Sunergy Web site (HTTP://www.suN.tOM/SUNERGV) already offers rich material from past
shows-including transcripts, audio clips, white papers, and links to resources on the Net. It also
includes a schedule of future programs and their satellite coordinates.
Why is Gage so committed to Sunergy? "Companies degrade when people like me, who have been
In place for a long time, develop a 'not-invente-d-here' attitude," he says. "The moment you reject
outside innovations, the company starts to die."
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to
c::xpn:ss it ~ts J s.::r11:s of links to ocher pages.
It just alters things. \Vith conventional email, I can persuade you through my words,
with ad hominem arguments abour why
something is important. With live e-mail, I
can show you. There's power in that.
At what point does technology create too mw:h
communications? Sun's people generate 2 million
e-n1L1il messages pt:r day and have created 2Jo,ooo
Web pages. Now you're installing universal videoconferencing. Don't you risk cYvt:rloadf
Every time we've increased the ability of
people at Sun to communicate elecrronically,
good things have happened. So we just keep
increasing it. I can think of lors of interesting ways ro use video. Let's say Bill joy is sitring in Aspen and he has an idea, and he "\Vants
to start a discussion about it inside the company. He can do a video and put it out on
the Net. Suddenly the entire company can
learn from its most brilliant person. People
can play it over and over and have an ele=onic
discussion. We are merging video, audio, publishing, and telecommunications to create a
new work environment that ler.s us combine
and distribute our collective wisdom.
Let's move .from networks inside companies
to the JUtworlced economy. Is it all that different
doing !rn.siness on the Netr
For one thing-and this is only a slight
overstatement-you can fire-your vice president of marketing. The Internet style is to
put something up and let other people examine it-no hype, no hoopla, no advertising
unless it's substantive. That style is the basis
of Java·s success. We didn't make a big
announcement. There were no tents, no spotlights,-no celebrity endorsements. We pur up
the Web page (HTTP:/ /JAVA. SUN .coM) and invited people to visit. They could read about
Java, download code. and make up their own
minds. And lots of people do. Our Java page
ger.s 1.5 million hits per day.
It's no-obligation marketing. And it ereares a different kind of customer, a much
more committed customer.
Most people view this "download for-free"
modd as a way to btiild market share and establish a standard. We'!l give it away .first, dominau lata. You sa it differmtly?
~'hat you're really rrying to do is harness
t~ collective brainpower of the Net m the
service of your product. The old idea was that
the only people who could help you invent new
things were people inside your company Or:.._
the Ner, you can invoke the talents of peoele
worldwide, 24 hours a day; who are doing it out
of love-doing it just to do it. You don't have
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don't§ to pay thew; §'re on the Ne'tThev
work all the rime; they're on the Net all the time.
The Net doesn't let you do away with your
vice· president of engineering, but it does
change the job. _The VP of engin_eering becomes a conductor and an explore'r who looks
for advanced work around the world and how
to incorporate it into your product.
The Net becomes the foundation for a
vast acceleration in product development.
It's the goal of the new fast company: ins~t .
communication with people you've never
met, co create something of value that
becomes the heart of a business.
It's an aUuring model--and oru: that few companies have adDpted. Wh>lt's stopping more companies from competing this wayr
The nework sryle isn't for everybody. People who are over 40 and grew up in companies where proprie[ary information is a big
deal go crazy. You're going co post internal
product documentation on the Web? What
if
competitors, the enemy, get their hands
on it? Which of course they will
But there's value in talking with the enemy. The more information you get, and the
more quickly you get it, the more likely you
are to adapt and survive. It's like accelerating the evolutionary cycle. There are no real
secrets. Speed is the only form of security.
Are there times when Stm doesn't walk its
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ralk when it comes to living on the Net?
One of these days I plan to add a new fearure to my personal home page: a Hall of
Shame. The first inductees v:,;n be some senior
people who proposed in 1994 that Sun charge
$50 per month to any employee who wanted to use the Mosaic Web browser. It's always
the same objections-capacity and security.
They claimed that Web browsers were a huge
source of viruses and extremely dangerous
to the Sun network. lt was ridiculous.
Did the proposal go through?
There was a grassroots revolt. I happened
to be in Germany, at the Hannover trade fair.
our
to
the night the message went our announc. ing the policy. I'm in Sun's boorh drinking
beer with a hundred Germans. The e-mail
comes across people's machines and there's
this huge uproar. So the Germans start sending e-mail to Mountain View saying. "I can't
believe this." The messages startled people
here, because they didn't realize where they
were being written. That's another thing with
e-mail. You get a bunch of angry messages
from people and you think they're sitting
calmly in their offices. You don't realize they're
on the floor of Hannover Fair, drunk, with
the Sun rock-and-roll band playing behind
them. This movement from Germany started a series of flames, and the company backed
off-you know, 'Upon further reflection ... "
Are thae otha sources of re.siswnce?
Many HR people, including ours, are terrified by these ideas. Just rry finding a phone
book at Sun. Impossible! Why? "Headhunter;
will come after our best people."
That whole attirude misses the point. People assume that if someone leaves the company, they're no longer part of the company. that it won't benefit fi:om their ideas. The
network model says that's wrong. Patrick
Naughton was one of the early leader; of the
project that became Java. In 1994 he went to
Seattle to join Starwave, the sports-information and emertainment company owned by
[Microsoft cofounder) Paul Allen (HTTP://www.
STARWAVE.COM). Patrick championed Java at
Srarwav-e. One of the reasons Microsoft adoptedjava is because Naughton's group showed
how Java could create something powerful.
Business is in a struggle: Who speaks for
the company? Is it always the CEO? I don't
think so. Sun stands for the collection of tillent we've assembled; lots of people speak. for
Sun. The power-and terror--of the Net is
that it lets them reach a huge global audience.
We are a multifaceted human organism
artempting to explain ourselves to other~o1'.§. Suddenly; our explanations, which sometimes conflicr, don't reach one person, they
reach 30 million people. It makes lots of people nervous. To me it's the best thinjltl'iat
could happen.
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underground. All of a sudden Boris Babaian,.the guy who built all·of Russia's supercomputers, holds up
·a glas~ of wine and describes, in 90 seconds, the architecture of Elbrus Ill, Russia's newest, not-yet.
built Juperccmputer. It was amazingly close to ttie architecture Bill Joy had beeri·thinking about fer
then~ generation of Sun machines. My first thought was: This guy can get shot for saying this. Remember, i!! was 1989. My second thought was: He really has to come to Sun so we can talk about his ideas.
"About six months later, Boris and three of his people show ·up at Sun. It happened to be the day
that al bp guy from the National Security Agency was visiting as well. Now this is an agency that's spent
hundr~ds of millions of dollars spying on people like Boris Babaian. So we're sitting in the cafeteria,
and I look up, and who's wallting over to the table, carrying his little cafeteria tray, heading directly for
me, Jith a big smile on his face-but Babaian! So I say to the NSA guy, 'Tom, you've gotto meet Boris.'
And ~m says, 'I can't.' I'm stunned. 'But you've spent lots .of taxpayer money spying on Babaian, and
here e is!' Tom says, 'But if I tallt to him, I'll have to meet with our internal security people. It will be
a Ion debrief, and I can't afford it. I've got big meetings coming up. I don't have the time to meet him.'
"1' w" •mniog. B..t Tom w" ""'"' "' io '"'"''-'"' wh'" ""'""' witb th• '"'m' i> "''·"
�of good and there's some bad, because, as all of you know who are
working in this arena, we are going through a period of breathtaking
change, the most dramatic change in a hundred years, since we became
an industrial society from an agricultural one. And that is forming
great changes in the nature of work, there's more mind and less
muscle in it; great changes in the nature of the workplace -- there's
not a person to waste, there has to be very high levels of
productivity; great changes in the market -- all the markets for
money products and services are global now, either directly or
indirectly. And that has put great new challenges on our society.
We should not underestimate, first of all, the
importance of a commitment to productivity and to·quality.
It is the
revolution which has occurred in American manufacturing, I am
convinced, that has led the way to giving us the kind of economy,
with declining deficits and lower interest rates, which has permitted
the United States to create 7.7 million new jobs in the last three
years, when the other six big economies in the G-7, together, have
netted out at zero.
It is not easy to create new jobs in the
beginning of this technological revolution. So I cannot tell you how
important that is.
The second thing I want to say is that that has been a
model for me for what we should do in government. Our state, when I
was a governor, had the first quality management program of any state
government. And the Vice President's reinventing government
operation here has, obviously, had a significant impact on rtot only
reducing the size of government to its lowest in 30 years, getting
rid of 16,000 pages of regulation, but, more important, raising the
performance level in many, many agencies.
The third thing I want to say is that one of the ways we
have to manage this transition is to continue to create more good
high-wage jobs. And we can do that through the passage of specific
legislation, as we did with the Telecommunications Bill, which passed
with virtually the unanimous support of the Congress, members of both
parties, and which I believe and Secretary Brown believes will create
millions of new jobs. That directly affects, obviously, Corning and
this specific division, but it will indirectly affect all of America
if we can create three'to three-and-a-half million more high-wage
jobs. It will help people undergoing transitions in other companies
to move to those new jobs.
The third point I want to make is that both of these
companies have proved that you can have the right sort of partnership
with the government. The Secretary mentioned that both of them had
done work with NIST, which is our technology division within the
Commerce Department. The Commerce Department has done two things
better than any predecessor, I believe, thanks to Secretary Brown and
the others who work there.
First of all, they've done a better job
in opening the doors around the world for American businesses and
American products. And secondly, they have tried to help in a very
effective way, managed the transition by investing in partnership
with the private sector in important emerging areas of technology.
And that is very important. That's the sort of thing government
ought to do -- not deciding exactly how this economy will grow, not
picking winners and losers, but working with the private sector to
provide that extra added measure of cooperation in the new
technologies that will enable us to win.
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The final thing I want to say is this: These two
companies -- and I want to say a special word here about Arm~trong.
Henry said that, well, Armstrong was not -- it was a traditional
manufacturing company, not a high-tech company. All manufacturing
operations that are going to succeed have to be high performance
companies. And they have to get the most out of their people. And
they are managing this transition in the same way I'm'convinced we
have to manage it here -- teamwork. The people who aren't here whose
names we'll never know are just as important as the people who are
here in the fact that these two companies won these awards today.
And that's something we need to keep in mind here in
Washington.
If we had more teamwork we would be more successful at
g1v1ng the American people a higher return on their tax dollar and in
moving more quickly through this transition. That is what works.
And in a time of transition you simply don't have the luxury of
engaging in politics as.usual, just like you can't engage in business
as usual.
So that's the significance of this day to me.
It's the
validation of years and years of effort by people who believe in
quality management.
It's the validation of the proposition that we
can create new opportunities for Americans if we work together to
move into the future instead of running away from it.
It proves that
t~ere is a proper role for the nation's government in a limited
supportive way to help to create new economic opportunities, and,
most important, it shows that when we work together, we never lose.
Thank you very much.
(Applause.)
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�PRESIDENT WILLIAM J. CLINTON
REMARKS ON THE
TECHNOLOGY LITERACY CHALLENGE
UNION CITY, NEW JERSEY
FEBRUARY 15, 1996
[VP Gore; Mayor Walter; Tom Highton, Superintendent of the
Union City School District; Senator Lautenberg; Congressman
Menendez; Bob Fazio, Principal of Christopher Columbus School;
Jim Cullen, Vice Chairman of Bell Atlantic; parents, teachers,
students of the Christopher Columbus School, and citizens of
Union City.
I'd also like to say hello to Education Secretary
Dick Riley and Congressman Bob Torricelli, as well as the
students from 65 schools in 3 counties who are joining us via the
information superhighway]
It's great to be back here in New Jersey and in Union City.
I came here today because this city and your school system are
undergoing a remarkable transformation that the rest of the
country needs to know about. Let me begin by acknowledging one of
the original architects of this transformation -- your former
mayor and current Congressman, Bob Menendez. Bob is a true native
son of Union City. He is a product of your school system and a
tireless advocate for quality education. It is fitting that the
second largest Cuban-American community in America have a
representative as fine as Bob Menendez.
It was his sponsorship of the New Jersey Telecommunications
Act in 1991 that set the stage for the remarkable turnaround we
are witnessing today.
I'll talk more about that later.
The rebirth of Union City and your schools reminds us that
we live in an age of great possibility. More Americans, from all
walks of life, will have more chances to build the future of
their dreams than ever before. New technologies are opening
remarkable new vistas of prosperity. A growing global
marketplace is putting a premium on American ingenuity and skill.
But we also know that this new era is producing new
pressures and stiff challenges for our people. While more of our
citizens are living better, too many of them are working harder
just to keep up. And they justifiably wonder if they and their
children will be winners in the new age, or if they will be left
behind. After what I have seen today, I can tell you -- Union
City will not be left behind. It will lead the way.
In my State of the Union, I outlined our seven biggest
challenges for the future -- challenges we must meet if we are to
enable our people to make the most of their own lives.
Those challenges are: strengthening our families and giving
our children better childhoods; renewing our schools; enhancing
the security of working families through access to health care,
lifetime education and training and secure pensions; fighting
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crime and gangs and drugs until crime is the exception, not the
rule, in America again; protecting our environment; maintaining
our world leadership for peace and freedom; and reforming and
reinventing our government so that it works better for the
American people.
How will we meet these challenges?
,The era of big
government is over. But, we must not go back to an era when
people were left to fend for themselves.
We cannot solve the complex problems of the modern world
unless we work together in the genuine spirit of community
together, teamwork, each of us doing our part. Businesses
building the communities they serve. Schools providing the
highest quality education, and recognizing that they cannot walk
away from teaching values. Religious institutions bringing their
teachings to life through service to the community.
And government at every level helping, too -- not by trying
.to do more than it should, but by giving every American the
tools so they can make the most of their own lives.
That means students like you and parents like you who are
taking advantage of the opportunities provided by the schools
here in Union City.
That is how America will meet its great challenges in the
Age of Possibility. And there is no better example of what I'm
talking about than what you are doing right here in the Union
City.
Today I want to talk to you about how we will meet the
challenge of educating our young people.
Education is the way we give every child a future, the
chance to live the American dream. That's why, in my State of
the Union Address, I said we must renew our schools, demand high
standards, throw the doors of college open wider than ever
before.
My administration has already put in place a comprehensive
strategy to renew education. We have expanded Head Start
preschoql; we have enacted Goals 2000, a grassroots effort to
meet national standards; we have created a network of school-towork programs to help high-school graduates get better jobs, even
if they do not go on to college right away.
I have challenged schools to provide character education, to
teach good values and good citizenship.
I have challenged states
to give all parents the right to choose which public schools
their children will attend. And we should let teachers form new
schools with a charter they can keep only if they do a good job.
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before. We expanded Pell Grant scholarships for deserving ·
students; we created a new direct lending program that makes it
easier to pay back student loans; our AmeriCorps program is
giving 25,000 young people the chance to serve their community
while helping pay for college. Here, too, we must do more.
I have proposed that every family be able to deduct $10,000
of college tuition; I have proposed a $1000 scholarship for the
top 5% of every high school graduating class; and I have proposed
that work study be expanded so that 1 million young people can
work their way through college.
. School standards and college opportunity are critical. But
we must recognize that as our country enters the era of the
supercomputer and the internet, our schools must move forward as
well. We must modernize our public schools.
A hundred years ago, America made a commitment to provide
its children the skills to navigate the move·from farm to
factory. With universal public schooling, we wiped out
widespread illiteracy while preparing every child for the world
of steel, electricity and internal combustion.
Now, we are moving into an economy built on information and
intense global competition. We know that in the era to come,
America's prosperity will depend on its technological edge. We
know that the key to expanding opportunity is to give every child
the skills to master the information age.
And we all know that it's no longer enough to teach our
children reading, writing and 'rithmetic. Education in the Age
of Possibility will require the kind of computer literacy that my
generation could not even imagine. The Vice-President was in
Philadelphia yesterday to celebrate the birthday of the first
computer, called ENIAC [ee-nee-ack], which was born the ,same year
I was. When I was the age of the students here, we were amazed
by those technological breakthroughs -- technicolor and stereo.
Color television, cellular telephones, and computers that fit on
a desk were the stuff of science fiction. ·
For our young people today, it's a far different world.
They interact with computers at the supermarket check-out
counter, in video arcades, and in their homes. But one of the
few rooms you can enter in America today where you can't find a
computer . . • is a classroom. And that's wrong.
That is why I have issued a challenge to our nation, and
called for a national partnership to ensure that every young
person in America has access to the future. When I
looked
around the country to find a community that is leading the way, I
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Union City.
I found the best model right here in
You have taken a school system that was once on the brink of
state takeover and you have rescued it. And the way you did this
is the way we can meet all our challenges -- everyone working
together, everyone doing their part. The Board of Education voted
to modernize. Bell Atlantic linked up the schools.
The State of
New Jersey helped with resources. Teachers and experts wrote a
new curriculum. Parents have come in for weekend training,
taught by a teacher and her students, and now work with their
children on computers at home. And the students have seized this
opportunity and taken responsibility.
You know what has happened here. With computers in the
classroom and computers at home, all linked together, homework is
being done in a new way . . • classroom lessons take on a new
life . . . parents and teachers keep in touch by e-mail • . •
test scores have skyrocketed while truancy and drop-out rates
have plummeted.
.
Technology in the classroom is not just a fancy toy.
It is
dramatically improving the critical thinking and problem solving
skills of students, all over the country. Over 130 recent
academic studies found that the use of technology to support
instruction led to higher achievement in language, art, math,
social studies and science.
So, now we have dramatic proof of the power of technology to
expand opportunity for our young people. We must harness that
power and spread it throughout this country.
In the State of the Union, I called on all Americans to join
a national mission to make every child technologically literate.
We must connect every classroom and library in the country by the
dawn of the 21st century, with quality computers, trained
teachers, and creative software. We must do everywhere what you
have done here.
We are already making real progress. We are bringing
companies and volunteers together in California to wire 20% of
the state's schools this year alone. And we insisted that the
Telecommunications Bill which I signed last week require
companies to provide a discount for connecting classro9ms and
libraries. And as we all do our part, our national government
must continue to do its part.
Today, I am announcing a major initiative to energize our
people as we work together to fulfill this mission.
I am
proposing a $2 billion Technology Literacy Challenge that will
put the future at the fingertips of every child in every
classroom in America.
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�When we do this, we will open new horizons of opportunity
for our children and our future.
This proposal is part of the balanced budget I submitted to
Congress. Let me be clear: We must balance the budget, so that we
do not leave our children a burden of debt.
But I am determined
that even as spending is cut dramatically, the education of our
children will not suffer. The funding for this new initiative
will mean we have to cut spending elsewhere -- but nothing is
more important than preparing our children to compete and win in
the new global economy.
Computers in every classroom. Students eager to learn.
Parents able to help them. People reaching out to one another.
We can do all this -- if we do it together.
If we all do our
part, if we are as dedicated to creating opportunity for our
children as our parents were to giving us opportunity, then the
Age of Possibility will belong to all of our people.
Thank you and God bless you all.
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�REMARKS BY PRESIDENT WILLIAM JEFFERSON CLINTON
THE TECHNOWGY LITERACY CHALLENGE
UNION CITY, NEW JERSEY
FEBRUARY 15, 1996
[Mayor Walter; Tom Highton, Superintendent of the Union City School District;
Senator Lautenberg; Congressman Menendez; Vice President Gore; Bob Fazio, Principal of
Christopher Columbus School; Jim Cullen, Vice President of Bell Atlantic; parents, teachers,
students of the Christopher Columbus School. I'd also like to say hello to Education
Secretary Dick Riley and Congressman Bob Torricelli, as well as the students from 65
schools in 3 counties who are joining us via the magic of video technology; and citizens of
Union City]
It's great to be back here in New Jersey and in Union City. I came here today
because this city and your school system are undergoing a remarkable transformation that the
rest of the country needs to know about. Let me begin by acknowledging one of the original
architects of this transformation -- your former mayor and current Congressman, Bob
Menendez. Bob is a true native son of Union City. He is a product of your school system
and a tireless advocate for quality education. It is fitting that the second largest CubanAmerican community in America have a representative as fine as Bob Menendez. It was his
sponsorship of the New Jersey Telecommunications Act in 1991 that set the stage for the
remarkable turnaround we are witnessing today. I'll talk more about that later.
The revitalization of Union City and your schools reminds us that we live in an age of
great possibility. More Americans, from all walks of life, will have more chances to build
the future of their dreams than ever before.
We have the lowest combined ~te of unemployment and inflation in 27 years.
Homeownership is at a 15-year high. Our auto industry leads the world again. In the last
three years, we have created over 7.7 million new jobs-- 700,000 of them in the
construction industry alone. For three years in a row our people have set successive records
for the formation of new businesses. America is strong and growing stronger.
And New Jersey is also on the move. Unemployment here is down. In the last 35
months, 140,700 new jobs have been created. New home building has increased 4 percent
per year in this state, after falling 17 percent in the 4 years before I took office.
Around the world, from the Middle East to Bosnia, America is leading the way
toward peace and freedom. And perhaps, most important, Americans are coming together
around our basic values of family, work and community. The crime rate, the welfare rate,
the food stamp rate, the poverty rate, the teen pregnancy rate are all down.
But this new era is also producing new pressures and new challenges. While more
. of our citizens are living better, too many of them are working harder just to keep up, and
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they justifiably wonder if they will be winners, of if they will be left behind. After what
I've seen today, I can tell you, Union City is not going to be left behind.
Our challenge in this time of change is to preserve the American Dream for all
citizens who are willing to work for it, to maintain our cherished values and to assert our
leadership for peace and freedom-- at home and around the world.
But, we have new challenges, even as we become stronger. In my State of the
Union, I outlined our seven biggest challenges for the future-- challenges we must meet if
we are to make the American Dream available to all our people and unite our country around
our shared values. Those challenges are: strengthening our families and giving our children
better childhoods; enhancing the security of working families through access to health care,
lifetime education and training and secure pensions; fighting crime and gangs and drugs until
crime is the exception, not the rule, in America again; protecting our environment,
maintaining our world leadership for peace and freedom, ·continuing to reform and reinvent
our government so that it works better for the American people, and finally, providing better
education for all our citizens.
How are we going to meet these challenges? The same way you are doing it here -through teamwork. As I also said in the State of the Union, the era of big government is
over. But, we must not go back to an era when people were left to fend for themselves. We
cannot solve the complex problems of the modern world unless we work together in the
genuine spirit of community -- everybody doing his or her part to enable all of us to make
the most of our lives: businesses, schools, churches, families, and government at every
level. Again, there is no better example of what I'm talking about than what you are doing
right here in the Union City schools. And that's what I want·to talk with you about today:
the challenge of providing a better education for all our citizens.
We all know that it's no longer enough to teach our children reading, writing and
'rithmetic. Education in the Age of Possibility will require the kind of computer literacy that
my generation only dreamed about. It's not that today's young people are unfamiliar with
the new computer technology. They interact with it at the supermarket check-out counter, in
video arcades, and in their homes. It is ironic that one of the few rooms you can enter in
America today where you can't find this technology is a classroom. We have to change that.
That's why I have called for a national partnership to ensure that every young person in
America has access to the future. I have proposed that every classroom in America be
connected to the information superhighway, with computers and good software and welltrained teachers by the year 2000. When I looked around 'the country to find a community
that is leading the way, I didn't have to look far. I found the best model right here in Union
City.
You have taken a school system that was once on the brink of state takeover and
rescued it through a public-private partnership involving the Bell Atlantic Corporation, the
Union City Board of Education, and the Education Development Center. A few minutes
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ago, just across the street at Christopher Columbus School, I got a first-hand look at the
difference they are making.
Beginning in September of 1993, thanks to the efforts of Congressman Menendez and
others, computers were supplied at the Christopher Columbus School and in the homes of the
school's 135 seventh-grade students and their teachers. Since then, an interactive television
network linking classrooms at Columbus to schools in Bergen, Hudson and Morris counties
has been installed. This technology has resulted in an extraordinary improvement in the lives
of students at Columbus. Since going on-line, student test scores have skyrocketed while
truancy and drop-out rates have plummeted.
Technology is revolutionizing education. It's not just a fancy toy. It is dramatically
improving the critical thinking and problem solving skills of students -- and not just here in
Union City, but all over the country. New York City's Computer Pilot Program showed
gains of 80 percent for reading and 90 percent for math when computers were used to assist
in the learning process.
A 1995 review of more than 130 recent academic studies found that the use of
technology to support instruction improved student achievement in language, art, math, social
studies and science. ·
And a Congressionally mandated review of 47 comparisons of multimedia instruction
with more conventional approaches found time savings of 30 percent, improved achievement
and cost savings of 30 to 40 percent, and a direct positive link between the amount of
interactivity provided and instructional effectiveness.
So, we now have dramatic proof of the power of technology to expand opportunity
for our young people. We must harness that power and spread it throughout this country.
In the State of the Union, I called on all Americans to join a national mission to make
every child technologically literate. Today, I am announcing a major initiative to energize
our people as we work together to fulfill this mission. I am proposing a $2 billion
Technology Literacy Challenge that will put the future at the rmgertips of every child in
every classroom in America. The way we will do this is through the kind of partnership
that is working here in Union City: state and local governments, the private sector, and
local communities all working together to achieve our goal of advancing the technological
literacy of American students.
We want to accomplish four things: one, provide access to modem computers for all
teachers and students; two, provide every teacher the training and support they need to help
students learn through computers and the information highway; three, develop effective and
engaging software and on-line learning resources for the full curriculum; and four, connect
every school and classroom to the information superhighway by the year 2000. When we do
this, we will open new horizons of opportunity for our children and our future. This.
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proposal is part of the balanced budget I submitted to Congress. We can do this while we
balance the budget.
This new initiative builds on other recent steps we have taken to move America
forward into the age of technology. We're bringing companies together in California to wire
the state's classrooms by the year 2000. And we insisted that the Telecommunications Bill
which I signed last week require that companies provide a discount for wiring classrooms to
the information superhighway.
Let me be clear: I made a commitment in my balanced budget plan that even as
spending was being cut dramatically, the education of our children would not suffer. The
funding for this new initiative may mean we have to cut spending elsewhere -- but nothing is
more important than preparing our children to compete and win in the new global economy.
A hundred years ago, America made a commitment to provide its children the skills
to navigate the move from farm to factory. America's little red schoolhouses helped wipe
out illiteracy while preparing every child for the world of steel, electricity and internal
combustion. Now, we are moving into an economy built on information and intense global
competition. Our commitment to our children today must include finding a way to use the
enormous power of new information technology to prepare our children for the challenges of
the 21st century.
I believe the national government has a responsibility to work with schools and
communities meet this challenge. The Technology Literacy Challenge will help state and
local communities succeed. The future will be ours, but only if we work together to ensure
everyone a chance at the American Dream.
Thank you and God bless .you all.
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2006-0462-F
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Terry Edmonds worked as a speechwriter from 1995-2001. He became the Assistant to the President and Director of Speechwriting in 1999. His speechwriting focused on domestic topics such as race relations, veterans issues, education, paralympics, gun control, youth, and senior citizens. He also contributed to the President’s State of the Union speeches, radio addresses, commencement speeches, and special dinners and events. The records include speeches, letters, memorandum, schedules, reports, articles, and clippings.
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Clinton Presidential Records: White House Staff and Office Files
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William J. Clinton Presidential Library & Museum
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635 folders in 52 boxes
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Title
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2-15-96 Technology Literacy N.J. [4]
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Office of Speechwriting
James (Terry) Edmonds
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2006-0462-F
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Box 32
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<a href="https://catalog.archives.gov/id/7763294" target="_blank">National Archives Catalog Description</a>
Provenance
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Clinton Presidential Records: White House Staff and Office Files
Publisher
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William J. Clinton Presidential Library & Museum
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Adobe Acrobat Document
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Reproduction-Reference
Date Created
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12/9/2014
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42-t-7763294-20060462F-032-008-2014
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