Statewide planning for telecommunications in education:

Organizational Responses to Educational Telecommunications Policy in Three States: Oregon, Colorado, and Utah

“…A multiple case approach allows for the elimination of rival. hypotheses, and provides a method for describing state variations in goveq1ance and service delivery, which has been identified in the literature as impor~ant to state policy makers (Hezel 1991 Skrtic 1985, 187). One group was contacted by U.S mail, and the second group through electronic mail ("e-mail").…”

“…For example, in states with little experience in providing telecommunications services, coordinated planning and governance appears to be easier to accomplish than in states with existing agencies that have provided such services in the past. In states that have mandated a comprehensive approach, and in which entrenched agencies do not have an established hold on telecommunications service provision, coordinated systems are more likely (Midson 1992;Hezel 1991). documents from an extensive library of materials collected from each state.…”