Top News - Audits frustrate e-Rate applicants - The Diigo Meta page

• 06 Jul 09
  

  Nicole Muth

  erate funding technology

  • Four out of five applicants said the e-Rate is meeting its goal of connecting
    schools and libraries to the internet, and 71 percent said their organization
    has more classrooms online as a result of the program--up from 59 percent last
    year.
  • Two-in-Five Rule--which limits a school or library's receipt of funding for
    internal connections to twice in a five-year period--is not having its intended
    effect, which is to allow this funding to reach a greater number of entities.
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  • • applicants regarded the Bishop Perry Order--a rule change from 2006 that
      allowed them to make corrections to specific items on their applications, if
      minor errors are discovered--as the most positive change to the e-Rate program
      in recent years.
    • however, applicants weren't quite so enamored with the order. The percentage of
      respondents who believed Bishop Perry would bring no change to the e-Rate
      program was 36 percent, up from 25 percent last year.
    • most applicants find the audit process arduous and draining on their time and
      resources. While audits might be a necessary evil, most applicants said the
      process could be streamlined

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