August 18, 2000

Spending Bill for Pentagon Includes Small Sums for Distance Education

By DAN CARNEVALE

The Defense Department appropriations bill for the 2001 fiscal year, which President Clinton signed into law last week, includes some small but notable expenditures for distance education to train military personnel.

The bill includes money for several distance-education courses in human resources and medicine. It also requires that the Army continue using traditional classroom instruction in a training program for students at historically black colleges and universities, although the

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