ACCESS

The ACCESS program stands for the Alabama Connecting Classroom, Educators and Students Statewide. ACCESS is a program by Governor Bob Riley. ACCESS is in place to try to provide all Alabama public high school students with equal, high quality education and educators. ACCESS is a distance learning program.

ACCESS provides all Alabama public high school students with high quality teachers in order to provide fair education across the state of Alabama. The goal of ACCESS is "Our Vision: The State of Alabama will provide equal access to high quality instruction to improve student achievement through distance learning" (ACCESS). ACCESS provides students and teachers with "Courses, Educators, Students, Resources, and Technical Support". ACCESS's Home page offers people with important dates, reminders, news, support centers, and more. Some of the resources that ACCESS provides to students and teachers are ALEX and the Alabama Virtual Library.

ACCESS is a distance learning program that will let all public Alabama high school students have an equal, high quality education. ACCESS has links for parents, students, and teachers. ACCESS is helpful because not all schools are fortunate enough to have the funding as other schools are, and ACCESS is allowing students from poorer schools have the same learning advantages as students from richer schools. ACCESS, to me, will help solve some social problems such as education being unequal for students of certain incomes. ACCESS will allow all students in the state of Alabama that are in high school a fair and equal chance at getting ahead in life due to the education offered to them. ACCESS's distance learning is a great plan of action. ACCESS has been going strong since November of 2004. It started off in Year One with about ten million dollars in funding, according to ACCESS's website, which can be found at, http://accessdl.state.al.us/. ACCESS is providing equality to every high school student that attends an Alabama public school.