The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) approved the expansion of its E-rate program this week to include funding for Wi-Fi hot spots, which schools can loan to students who lack Internet access ...

The United States Senate has passed a joint resolution to overturn "Addressing the Homework Gap Through the E-Rate Program," a July 2024 expansion to the FCC's E-Rate program that allowed schools and ...

The Federal Bureau of Investigation has raided yeshivas and technology vendors in ultra-Orthodox corners of Brooklyn and Rockland County, serving search warrants as part of a sweeping fraud ...

Federal E-rate funding remains an essential function in bridging the digital divide, particularly for rural and underserved communities, according to an annual report from Funds For Learning, a ...

Could schools see greater protections against getting overcharged by some telecommunications companies under the E-rate program? But they seemed to favor a narrow rationale that the federal government ...

School and library broadband technology has been through a lot in recent years, and so has the federal E-rate program that funds it. E-rate helped build broadband extensions to serve remote learners, ...

It will now be easier for schools to cover the cost of providing Wi-Fi hotspots to students who don’t have adequate access to internet and broadband services at home. Under a change approved July 18 ...

When the Federal Communications Commission’s E-rate program first emerged in 1996, only 14 percent of the nation’s K-12 classrooms were connected to the internet. Since then, the program has ...

A U.S. House of Representatives subcommittee report has faulted the U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) for fraudulent activities found in a government program intended to connect schools and ...

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