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Funds For Learning Submits Comments on USAC Reform — Here’s What We Said, and What Others Are Saying

For the first time in nearly two decades, the FCC opened a wide-ranging review of how USAC operates. The April 15 Public Notice invited comment on six topic areas spanning the full...

by Todd Lawrence

USAC Is Scrutinizing Contract Dates on FY2025 Funding Requests. Here’s What That Means for Yours.

If your application is still in Program Integrity Assurance review, your contract dates are one of the first things worth checking. And if you are looking ahead to Funding Year...

by Neal Brautigan

What Trips Applicants Up at Invoicing, and How to Stay Ahead of It

Invoicing sounds like one of the simpler steps in E-rate. Services are delivered, the math is done, you submit and you get paid. In practice, it’s one of the easiest places to make mistakes,...

Why Your CEP Base Year May Be Getting Changed in PIA

If you have ever watched USAC reviewers quietly change your site data, you are not alone. Last year, USAC modified Community Eligibility Provision (CEP) data on roughly one out of...

by Funds For Learning

FCC Opens Investigation Into Potential E-Rate Misuse in Minnesota

On May 15, 2026, FCC Chairman Brendan Carr announced that the Commission has sent three Letters of Inquiry to educational institutions in Minnesota as part of an investigation into potential misuse of...

by Funds For Learning

Five Years of E-Rate Procurement: A Program That Works

Funds For Learning recently completed a five-year analysis of E-rate competitive procurement, drawing on Form 471 line item data from Funding Years 2022 through 2026 in E-rate Manager, our proprietary E-rate data tool, along with...

Michelle Jackson

by Michelle Jackson

Your Funding Year 2026 FCDL Just Landed. Here’s How to Read It in the Next 10 Minutes.

Funding Year 2026 is moving. Wave 1 landed last week bringing commitments to more than 60% of FY2026 applicants, totaling over $1 billion (read our recap). Wave 2 followed on May 7, 2026 (read...

by Christopher Odom

Funding Year 2026 Wave 2 Is Out. What To Do If You Weren’t Funded.

Wave 2 of Funding Year 2026 landed on May 7, 2026. If your funding decision wasn’t in it, here’s what that does and doesn’t mean, and what to do while...