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New FCC Appeals Decisions May Clarify Some Issues

The Federal Communications Commission is continuing to work through its backlog of E-rate funding appeals, and on March 7 issued some more decisions that may clarify certain issues for some

Year Four Internal Connections Funding Likely for 90% Applicants Only

Schools and Libraries Division President Kate Moore advised the FCC March 1 that "USAC may for the first time be unable to fund fully ...90% discount requests, and may be...

February 28, 2001

FCC Signals More Forgiving Attitude On Some Application Rejections

In a Feb. 22 decision that appeared to signal a more forgiving attitude to some kinds of rejected E-rate applications, the Federal Communications Commission instructed the Schools and Libraries Division...

February 14, 2001

Funds For Learning Comments on the FCC’s Proposed Filtering Regulations

Here is the text of comments that Funds For Learning sent to the Federal Communications Commission Feb. 15 concerning the agency's proposal for implementing the E-rate portion of the Children's...

February 12, 2001

SLD Offers ‘Good Samaritan’ Program

The Schools and Libraries Division announced Feb. 13 that it was implementing a procedure to help E-rate applicants whose service provider had gone out of business or filed for bankruptcy...

February 6, 2001

SLD Preliminary Demand Estimate for Year 4 Is $5.5 Billion

The Schools and Libraries Division reported to the Federal Communications Commission Feb. 6 that its preliminary estimate of the demand for E-rate support in the program's fourth funding year is...

January 23, 2001

Bush Proposes Allocating E-rate Funds by Formula

President Bush Jan. 23 proposed consolidating federal technology programs and allocating E-rate funds by formula as part of his education reform package. President Bush Jan. 23 proposed consolidating federal technology...

January 22, 2001

FCC Commissioner Powell Named Chief of Agency

President Bush, as expected, has named Federal Communications Commission member Michael Powell the new chairman of the agency.