[CASL-L] Fwd: [aaslforum] Net Neutrality

[Shelley Stedman]

please share this with other interested parties in CT

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From: Bj Mccracken <Bj_Mccracken at gfps.k12.mt.us>
Date: 1/29/18 11:02 AM (GMT-05:00)
To: aaslforum at lists.ala.org
Subject: [aaslforum] Net Neutrality

I would like to give a shout out to Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who was the first gov. to use state power to require net neutrality in his state.  He expressed specific concerns for schools and libraries :).   Two days later Gov. Andrew Cuomo of New York followed suit.  A window is opening to continue the fight.  A constitutional argument may be possible to invoke.  According to the 10th Amendment, states are granted specific rights to make decisions concerning education.  The Federal Government can only invoke the 6th Amendment authorizing superseding power in constitutionally based situations.  Does the FCC decision stand on constitutional authority?  If all states created such rules, net neutrality may be neutralized.   A call to arms!  Librarians, send thanks and/or letters encouraging other Governors to follow the lead.

BJ McCracken
What a school thinks about its library is a measure of what it feels about education.  Harold Howe

Information Specialist/Teaching Librarian
Great Falls High School
406.268.6304 or 6305
www.bisonlibrary.org<http://www.bisonlibrary.org/>

Currently I am reading:
Hillbilly Elegy by J.D. Vance

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