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FCC OIG to Provide E-rate Program Reform Recommendations

The OIG plans to offer the FCC recommendations to reform the E-rate program and will provide a "vulnerability assessment/risk analysis" that will be released next reporting period...

by Peter Kaplan

SLD Reminds Applicants about Filing Form 486 Early

According to a Funds For Learning analysis, 5,521 FY 2014 applicants have already had their Form 486 processed totaling $384.1 million worth of commitments...

by Candy Miller

The Last Frontier

I am an Alaskan. When I share with others that I grew up in Alaska I would get questions like, "Did you live in an igloo?" and "Did you take...

by John Harrington

FY 2014 Demand Analysis: Part 4 ‚Äì Looking for Trends within the Trends

Applicants with more sites and more students generally pay less per student, regardless of their location or E-rate discount rate. Similarly, single schools and small school districts have the highest...

Revised Cost Allocation Regulations Effective July 14, 2014

The FCC published the revised cost allocation guidelines in the Federal Register, indicating the effective date of the rules will be July 14, 2014...

SLD Announces Fall 2014 Applicant Training Dates

The SLD will hold eight training events for E-rate applicants in the fall of 2014...

by John Harrington

ConnectED: One Year Later

On June 6, 2013, President Obama announced the ConnectED initiative to "within five years, connect 99 percent of America‚Äôs students to the digital age through next-generation broadband and high-speed wireless...

Wheeler Comments on “Closing Wi-Fi Gap”

On June 6, 2014 FCC Chairman Wheeler released a blog about his visit this week to Fairfax County schools. The Chairman discussed what he saw and specifically stated that "‚Ä¶schools...