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06 Jul 09

E-rate Compliance Assistance by Funds For Learning for Service Providers and Applicants - Home

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Top News - Audits frustrate e-Rate applicants

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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

17 Apr 09

Press Releases - Funds For Learning Launches 2nd Annual Survey of E-rate Applicants

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The survey will assess applicants' attitudes and opinions about the E-rate
program, and identify its key strengths and challenges
released in June on the Funds For Learning Web site,
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- In addition, survey participants will be invited to engage in a national online
  discussion about the E-rate program to elicit more specific feedback
- the online discussion will be organized to generate group interaction.
  Participants will be asked to address questions posed by a moderator, and to
  discuss the responses of other contributors
- About Funds For Learning
  Funds For Learning, LLC, is an E-rate compliance
  firm specializing in guiding E-rate applicants and service providers through the
  complex and ever-changing E-rate regulatory process

21 Mar 09

Technology - Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod (WELS)

Wels resources for e-rate technology planning etc..

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WELS technology_plans funding erate lit_review

21 Feb 09

Overview of the Program - Schools and Libraries - USAC

Universal Service Org - information about e-rate program

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08 Jan 09

Leveraging the E-Rate for Ed-Tech Success - FCC seeks comments on e-Rate eligibility

qualifications for e-rate funding

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provides discounts on telecommunications services to schools and libraries. The
proposed changes would broaden the list of eligible services in some areas

04 Sep 08

Top News - FCC seeks comments on e-Rate eligibility

proposed changes to e-rate funding; broadening the elligible items which may be funded with e-rate funds for elligible schools

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The proposed changes would broaden the list of eligible services in some areas;
Eligible Services List (ESL) should include filtering software, a broader
classification of basic telephone service, dark fiber, text messaging, firewall
service, anti-virus/anti-spam software, scheduling services, telephone broadcast
messaging, and certain wireless internet access applications
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- whether to retain interconnected Voice over Internet Protocol (interconnected
  VoIP) as an eligible service for future funding years
- The FCC is examining whether it should process interconnected VoIP requests
  as Priority One services, and if those requests need to meet requirements of the
  Children's Internet Protection Act (CIPA).
- debate is whether stand-alone filtering software should be funded under the
  e-Rate program, because filtering software protects users from inappropriate
  content. Currently, eMail software or other eligible components that
  include content filtering are eligible--but a separately priced
  content-filtering product is not, according to the FCC's notice
- CIPA legislation says funds from the Elementary and Secondary Act of 1965 or the
  Library Services and Technology Act may be used to purchase filtering technology
  necessary to meet the law's requirements. Because the law did not explicitly
  mention the e-Rate as a source of funding for filtering software, such
  technology should not be considered e-Rate eligible,
- no sources of funds other than those explicitly listed in CIPA can be used to
  buy software to comply with the measure
- The FCC requires schools and libraries participating in the e-Rate program to
  base their requests for discounts on an approved technology plan, unless they
  are seeking discounts on basic local, long-distance, cellular, PCS, or
  voice-mail service only