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, ...

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 ...

Annie is a policy analyst for the Center for Technology and the Human Person at The Heritage Foundation. Under the Biden Administration, the Federal Communications Commission expanded the Education ...

Join eSchool News for the 12 Days of Edtech with 2024’s most-read and most-loved stories. On the 1st Day of Edtech, our story focuses on the E-rate program. Despite making significant technological ...

The federal E-rate program that funds internet connections in education is subject to a major anti-fraud statute, potentially bolstering schools that have been allegedly overcharged by ...

The Lawrence, Kan., school district, like many around the nation, has become reliant on the federal E-rate program for connecting schools to the internet. Two years ago, the federal program funded 80 ...

As K-12 schools face more frequent cyber attacks, federal policymakers are weighing whether one of the nation’s largest education technology funding programs should evolve to meet modern-day threats.

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 ...

The court rejected an argument by an AT&T subsidiary that an industry-funded program to provide internet access to schools and libraries is not subject to the federal False Claims Act. A unanimous U.S ...