79-1233 Access to telecomputing resources; powers and duties. - Nebraska Statutes

79-1233. Access to telecomputingresources; powers and duties.Each educationalservice unit shall provide access for all school districts within the geographicalarea served by the unit to telecomputing resources, which shall include thecapacity to receive and transmit distance education courses on at least aregional basis beginning on or before August 1, 2007, through the installationof necessary equipment at each educational service unit location or throughinterlocal agreements with other educational service units and shall providesupport for training users to meet their specific telecomputing and distanceeducation needs. School districts may annually elect prior to a date determinedby the educational service unit not to connect to such telecomputing resources.Each educational service unit shall also develop, with the State Departmentof Education, a plan which provides for connecting the telecomputing and distanceeducation equipment of such school districts with the telecomputing and distanceeducation equipment of the unit.Educationalservice units may enter into agreements pursuant to the Interlocal CooperationAct and the Joint Public Agency Act to carry out this section. Such agreementsmay include, but need not be limited to, provisions requiring any school districthaving telecomputing or distance education equipment connected to the educationalservice unit's telecomputing or distance education equipment to pay periodicfees necessary to cover the cost of such usage. SourceLaws 1993, LB 348, § 49; Laws 1993, LB 452, § 2; Laws 1995, LB 860, § 3; R.S.Supp.,1995, § 79-2225; Laws 1996, LB 900, § 950; Laws 1999, LB 87, § 90; Laws 1999, LB 141, § 15; Laws 1999, LB 386, § 5; Laws 2006, LB 1208, § 10; Laws 2007, LB603, § 22; Laws 2010, LB1071, § 27.Operative Date: April 15, 2010 Cross ReferencesInterlocal Cooperation Act, see section 13-801.Joint Public Agency Act, see section 13-2501.