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October 18, 2007

FCC Authorizes FY 2008 Filing Window Opening, Eligible Services List

Today the Federal Communications Commission authorized USAC to open the E-rate Funding Year 2008 Form 471 Application filing window to open on November 7,2007. This move allows USAC to begin...

October 18, 2007

SLD Starts to Deny Applicants Due to “2-in-5 Rule”

This week over 500 E-rate applicants and 500 service providers were notified about the status of their FY 2007 applications. The SLD released FY 2007 funding wave 24 committing nearly...

October 14, 2007

FCC Seeks Seven USAC Board Members

The FCC is looking for nominations for seven USAC Board Member Positions.¬†

October 10, 2007

USAC Issues Funding Waves Covering Four Funding Years

This week, USAC issued funding waves for E-rate funding years 2007, 2006, 2005, and 2002 totaling over $86 Million. For the current funding year, decisions were issued to E-rate 544...

October 3, 2007

FCC OIG Releases “Initial Statistical Analysis” of Compliance Audits

The FCC Office of Inspector General released an "initial" analysis of recent audits. A primary objective was to provide audits results based on error rates under the Improper Payments Information...

October 1, 2007

USAC Issues Semi-Annual Audit Recovery Report

On a semi-annual basis, the FCC has directed USAC to provide them with a summary and status of outstanding audit findings. This week USAC provided their report to the FCC...

September 30, 2007

Mississippi School District Receives FY 2001 Commitment

The SLD notified Vicksburg-Warren School District in Mississippi that they finally were awarded an outstanding FY 2001 funding commitment for $126,731. The last FY 2001 funding wave was on November...

September 30, 2007

FY 2007 Requests per Student

Funds For Learning has calculated the average E-rate funding request per student by state for Funding Year 2007. Nationally, $28 dollars were requested per student in the Priority One service...