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- Budget, funding to be key factors for ed tech community in 2006.(Outlook 2006)
- Funding will be the primary issue for education technology proponents in 2006, say experts. "The two super issues for the ed tech community are the funding of the No Child Left Behind Act and the E-rate," said Keith Krueger, executive director of the Consortium...
- Research articles 2006-01-01
- School E-Rate Net program blasted
- A $2.3 billion-a-year program to fund Internet access in schools and libraries is riddled with waste, fraud and abuse, according to a report issued Tuesday by lawmakers who vowed to seek reforms. Among other things, the so-called E-Rate program is poorly managed by the Federal Communications Commission and has...
- Research articles 2005-10-19
- FCC Orders $211M USF Hurricane Plan
- The Federal Communications Commission late Friday issued its formal order to implement a $211 million emergency services plan for supporting the Universal Service Fund USF program under adverse circumstances in areas affected by Hurricane Katrina within the Gulf Coast states of Alabama, Louisiana and Mississippi (TPR,...
- Research articles 2005-10-17
- FCC seeks comments to help improve operation of the universal service fund.
- The Federal Communications Commission is launching a "broad inquiry" into the operation of the Universal Service Fund, which is responsible for the federal E-rate program. The inquiry comes a little less than a year after the FCC changed rules to curb waste, fraud and...
- Research articles 2005-07-01
- GAO Report Attacks FCC Management Of USF, E-Rate
- Congress Scrutinizes 'Fraud, Waste & Abuse' The Universal Service Fund's scandal-ridden schools-and-libraries Internet access subsidy program known as "E-Rate" - currently handled by the third party Universal Service Administrative Co. USAC - clearly needs more hands-on control and internal process improvements by the Federal Communications Commission,...
- Research articles 2005-03-23
- $5.4B intended to plug schools, libraries into Net sits unspent
- More than one-third of nearly $15 billion raised to help connect public schools and libraries to the Internet has gone unspent, even as some cities go begging for cash, a new report says. The Government Accountability Office, Congress' investigative arm, on Wednesday said the Federal Communications Commission has done...
- Research articles 2005-03-17
- E-Rate program ends moratorium.(Information Technology Update)(Brief Article)
- The E-Rate program, which helps link schools and libraries to the Internet, has ended a four-month moratorium on new projects. According to a November 23 Associated Press AP story, more than $400 million in projects were delayed, and although the funds began flowing again, the Federal...
- Research articles 2005-02-01
- USF contribution factor up more than 10 percent.(News)
- Byline: HEATHER FORSGREN WEAVER A key lawmaker Thursday called universal service "the 800-pound gorilla'' and said that last week's action by the Federal Communications Commission to raise the universal-service contribution factor above 10 percent amounted to "bait-and-switch.'' ...
- Research articles 2004-12-20
- Funding moratorium hurts Corona, Calif., firm, area schools.
- By Darla Martin Tucker, The Business Press, San Bernardino, Calif. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Oct. 18--A Corona computer networking firm is feeling the pinch from a federal moratorium on a funding program through which the 140-employee firm derives 60 percent of its...
- Research articles 2004-10-18
- SLD suspends funding to schools to meet FCC accounting needs.(E-rate)
- Schools seeking E-rate funds will have to wait longer for their money, now that the Schools and Libraries Division SLD of the Universal Service Administrative Co. USAC has put all funding commitments on hold. The move comes at the behest of the Federal Communications...
- Research articles 2004-10-01
- FCC Orders USAC To Clean Up Its Accounting Procedures
- E-Rate Fund Commitments 'Temporarily' Suspended The FCC wants the Universal Service Administrative Company, the Commission's non-profit governmental corporation that oversees the Universal Service Fund, to move to government accounting standards by Oct. 1. The FCC's mandate to USAC has raised potential budget authority issues that, among other things,...
- Research articles 2004-08-25
- Blown deadline could cost Charleston County, S.C., schools.
- By Seanna Adcox, The Post and Courier, Charleston, S.C. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Jul. 8--The Charleston County School District, facing yet another financial setback, stands to lose out on millions of dollars in free technology because it missed a key deadline for submitting...
- Research articles 2004-07-08
- Congressman: E-rate program 'easily ripped off'
- WASHINGTON -- The $2.25 billion federal program that wires public schools and libraries to the Internet is "an invitation for disaster" that needs closer scrutiny, the head of a congressional subcommittee said Thursday. In the first of a series of hearings before the House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on...
- Research articles 2004-06-18
- Texas Firm Nailed For Fraud; Other Probes Pending
- Justice Department, FBI, FCC Inspector General Fully Engaged The controversial E-Rate Program, a $2.25 billion a year subsidy program intended to help fund high-speed Internet access and broadband connections for the nation's schools and libraries, is in trouble -- again. TPR has learned that federal investigators are now looking...
- Research articles 2004-06-02
- FCC looking for educator's thoughts on fraud, new proposed rules.(E-rate)
- The Federal Communications Commission FCC is seeking more comments on limiting waste, fraud and abuse in the E-rate program, as well as input on proposed changes to several program rules. Published in the Feb. 10 Federal Register, the FCC Notice of Proposed Rule Making...
- Research articles 2004-02-01
- Make E-rate program simpler, clearer, fairer, task force tells FCC, USAC.
- Toward the end of 2003, the Task Force on the Prevention of Waste, Fraud and Abuse in the E-rate program made its final report public--inside were recommendations to help resolve the problems that prompted the study. However, the Universal Service Administrative Co. USAC concluded that only...
- Research articles 2004-01-01
- Disturbed with FCC appeals process, coalition seeks schools for lawsuit.(E-rate)
- With the E-rate program coming increasingly under fire for its obtrusive and confusing rules (see story, opposite column), a coalition has formed to take one aspect of the program to court, in hopes of ensuring schools who deserve E-rate funding get it. The Palm...
- Research articles 2003-11-01
- FCC seeks comments on rule change; SLD wraps up year 2002 funding. (E-rate).
- The Federal Communications Commission FCC is seeking comments on a proposal to change several rules that apply to the E-rate program. In its Further Notice of Proposed Rulemaking FNPRM, FCC is seeking comment on the carryover of unused funds from year-to-year, the timing for...
- Research articles 2003-07-01
- FCC adopts new E-rate rules: steps are taken to reduce fraud, streamline applications. (news).(Brief Article)
- Now that the Federal Communications Commission FCC has adopted new rules to simplify and streamline its controversial e-rate program, will the move actually reduce fraud and ease the application process? Educators are keeping their fingers crossed. The $2.25 billion e-rate fund,...
- Research articles 2003-06-01
- E-Rate rule changes
- On May 24, the Federal Communications Commission FCC adopted several new rules to simplify and streamline the operation of the E-Rate program. Among the rule changes: * Entities convicted of misconduct with respect to the E-Rate program will be barred from program participation for a minimum of three years....
- Research articles 2003-05-03
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