E-rate News

October 12, 2000

SLD Commits Over $133 Million in Wave 24

The Schools and Libraries Division issued over $133 million in 319 commitment letters on Oct. 13. The total funds committed for Program Year 3 has now reached $2.01 billion, almost...

October 5, 2000

No Funding Commitments This Week

The Schools and Libraries Division announced Oct. 6 that it did not distribute any funding commitment letters this week,

September 28, 2000

SLD Issues Another $180 Million in Commitments

The Schools and Libraries Division announced Sept. 29 that it was issuing another 271 funding commitment letters for the third year of the E-rate program, totaling nearly $180 million. That...

September 25, 2000

The SLD Considers Program Year 4 Filing Window Dates

The Schools and Libraries Division announced on Sept. 18 that the E-rate Funding Year 4 (July 1, 2001-June 30, 2002) Form 471 application window will open in early November 2000...

September 24, 2000

SLD Announces New Discount Threshold

Eighty-two percent is the new E-rate discount threshold for funding Year 3 internal connections, the Schools and Libraries Division announced Sept. 22. This is the first reduction in the discount...

September 24, 2000

How Much Did Vendors Receive Through the E-rate Program?

Funds For Learning, one of the nation’s leading E-rate consulting firms, has just created a Web site tool that enables users to see how much E-rate money vendors have received.

September 17, 2000

Wave Twenty-one of Program Year Three is Released

After a week without a wave, the twenty-first wave of Year 3 funding commitments was released by the Schools and Libraries Division on Sept. 15. $14 million was committed in...

September 10, 2000

E-rate Study Finds Different Patterns of Funding Success

A major study of the first two years of the E-rate program has found that while many schools and libraries were able to take advantage of the program, certain kinds...