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January 9, 2012

Funding Year 2012 Filing Window Opens Today

The Funding Year 2012 Form 471 filing window officially opened today at noon Eastern time. The window will be open for 72 days, closing at 11:59pm Eastern on Tuesday, March...

January 6, 2012

FCC Releases USF Trends Report

Every year, the FCC releases the Universal Service Monitoring Report prepared by the Federal-State Universal Service Joint Board. The Monitoring Report highlights trends and statistics from the four Universal Service...

by Brian Stephens

December 30, 2011

2011: An E-rate Year In Review

Ah, late December - the time every year when we start to make our resolutions for the upcoming year... and take a look back at the ones we kept (or,...

December 20, 2011

Congress Exempts E-rate Program from Anti-Deficiency Act

On December 16, 2011, Congress passed the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2012, an act which consolidates remaining appropriations bills into a combined piece of legislation in order to keep the...

by Peter Kaplan

December 19, 2011

Winding Down 2009

The SLD recently announced that they will stop issuing regular funding waves for FY2009. Based on that information, here is a Funds For Learning analysis of where we currently stand....

by John Harrington

December 18, 2011

Reshaping Education in America

I recently read and wrote a review of Disrupting Class, by Clayton Christenson. The author's basic premise is that the Internet is about to reshape education in America. In the...

by Brian Stephens

December 15, 2011

We Couldn’t Have Said it Better Ourselves

Have you read our open letter and petition to increase the size of the E-rate fund? The response so far has been amazing! Over 1,000 parents, community members, and school...

December 13, 2011

Funds For Learning Website Updates

One of my responsibilities as vice-president of FFL is to help users of our web site have the best possible experience. It is our goal that everyone have access to...