AT&T, FEDS NEGLECT LOW-PRICE MANDATE DESIGNED TO HELP SCHOOLS.

The article offers information on the refusal of communication companies to provide bargain voice and data rates to schools and to subsidize the cost of equipment and services.It states that AT&T Co.has charged some schools up to 325 percent more than it charged others in the same region for essentially the same services.Verizon charged a New York school district more than twice as much as it charged government and other schools.The companies say they comply with the rules of the E-rate program.