Since we have worked with the e-rate program, I found this article interesting
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I was reading this
article on the changes applying
to the e-rate program. For those not familiar with the program
in 1997, as a corollary
to the Telecommunications Act of 1996, the FCC implemented a revised universal
service provision (USP) that essentially subsidizes Internet-related services
to elementary and secondary schools and public libraries. USAC has
disseminated more than $11 billion in so-called "e-rate" funds
since 1997.
So this means that the schools started
getting money to fund Internet services. However, this just came
out.
On Aug. 16, the FCC notified
the USAC that it was drastically tightening up accountability standards
for e-rate funding. In particular, the FCC required the USAC to have the
money in hand before promising it to schools - a 180-degree reversal of
the way the USAC had been operating for the past six years, during which
the USAC would promise funding based on estimated future contributions
by telcos.
The USAC responded Aug. 19 by informing
thousands of schools and libraries that it could no longer promise funding
for fiscal year 2004, which started in July.
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On Tuesday, October 26th, 2004 by Chris Miller
