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SLD Releases Wave 16 Funding Year 2006

The SLD notified 471 applicants and 388 service providers about the status of their 2006 funding requests. The SLD committed $17 million this week which leaves 2,880,714,175 pending in 2006.

Funds For Learning Comments on Draft Eligible Services List

Funds For Learning has filed a response to the USAC Draft E-rate Eligible Services List for Funding Year 2007.

USAC Issues Quarterly Report

The Universal Service Administrative Company this week reported to the Federal Communications Commission that it still had a total of $365 million in undisbursed E-rate funding available to roll-over for...

SLD Commits $42 Million in Wave 15 in Funding Year 2006

The SLD sent funding commitment decision letters to 585 applicants and 481 service providers committing $24.4 million. The commitments were all for priority one services and there still is no...

FCC Grants Hickory Public Schools District’s Appeal

Over this past year the FCC has released over a dozen appeals which have been favorable to E-rate applicants. In this most recent case, the Hickory Public School District filed...

Congressional E-rate Update: House Passes “Deleting Online Predators Act”

Yesterday the House passed the "Deleting Online Predators Act of 2006 (H.R. 5319) by a large margin. The bill would require that "recipients of universal service support for schools and...

SLD Commits Another $18.2 Million in Funding Year 2006

The SLD sent Wave 14 2006 funding commitment decision letters to over 400 applicants and 400 service providers this week committing $18.2 million. These were all for priority one requests....

FCC Grants Wyoming State Department of Education Appeal

The Wyoming State Department of Education was denied E-rate dollars in 2004 and 2005 because the SLD determined that in their competitive bidding evaluation price was not the primary factor....