By:  Cain                                             S.R. No. 1048
    1-1                           SENATE RESOLUTION
    1-2        WHEREAS, The Senate of the State of Texas is pleased to
    1-3  recognize Connie Stout for her notable contributions to the
    1-4  educational system of Texas; and
    1-5        WHEREAS, Connie is the director of the Texas Education
    1-6  Network which targets educators and students from kindergarten
    1-7  to the 12th grade; and
    1-8        WHEREAS, Funded by the Central Education Agency, the Texas
    1-9  Education Network supplies classes with indispensible resources
   1-10  by putting public school teachers and their students on-line for
   1-11  a $5 annual fee; and
   1-12        WHEREAS, The Texas Education Network provides students
   1-13  access to the Library of Congress, the National Archives, and
   1-14  several dictionaries; it also plugs them into a listing of every
   1-15  Texas school district, public school, teacher, and administrator;
   1-16  and
   1-17        WHEREAS, The Texas Parks and Wildlife Department, the
   1-18  McDonald Observatory's Star Date program, the National Aeronautics
   1-19  and Space Administration, the White House, members of the
   1-20  Texas Legislature, census tables, and state agencies' databases
   1-21  are all readily available to public schools through the network;
   1-22  and
   1-23        WHEREAS, The Texas Education Network addresses teacher
    2-1  isolation in the classroom by providing toll-free telephone numbers
    2-2  to its users in remote areas; it also addresses the school-finance
    2-3  conundrum by providing a far more economical solution of giving
    2-4  poorer districts equal access to information through computers
    2-5  rather than redistributing tax money; and
    2-6        WHEREAS, In the search to provide all the schoolchildren of
    2-7  Texas with an excellent education, the Texas Education Network has
    2-8  taken a giant step toward making invaluable information accessible
    2-9  to every classroom throughout the state for a nominal fee, thus
   2-10  freeing money for other educational needs; now, therefore, be it
   2-11        RESOLVED, That the Senate of the State of Texas,
   2-12  74th Legislature, hereby commend Connie Stout on behalf of the
   2-13  schoolchildren of Texas for her work as head of the Texas Education
   2-14  Network and extend best wishes to her for continued success in the
   2-15  future; and, be it further
   2-16        RESOLVED, That a copy of this Resolution be prepared for her
   2-17  as an expression of the high regard of the Texas Senate.
   2-18                               ______________________________________
   2-19                                       President of the Senate
   2-20                                    I hereby certify that the above
   2-21                               Resolution was adopted by the Senate
   2-22                               on May 12, 1995.
   2-23                               ______________________________________
   2-24                                       Secretary of the Senate
   2-25                               ______________________________________
    3-1                                        Member, Texas Senate