E-Rate Overview

Update from June 1997 - Status Report and Fact Sheet

Discounted Telecommunications Services for Schools and Libraries - E-Rate Fact Sheet

President Clinton's commencement address to the graduates of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Statement by Richard W. Riley, U.S. Secretary of Education on the E-Rate (June 4, 1998)

For the latest E-Rate information, including application forms, technology plan guidelines and Q & As, visit the Schools and Libraries Corporation, the nonprofit created by the FCC to administer the E-Rate. (Ed NOTE: Now located at http://www.sl.universalservice.org/)

A description of the E-Rate program administered by the Schools and Libraries Corporation and application forms FCC 470 and FCC 471 with instructions are now available for schools and libraries.

Answers to 10 frequently asked questions about the Universal Service Fund (E-Rate) can be found in this brief fact sheet.

On November 20, the Schools & Libraries Corporation, the nonprofit organization created to administer the E-Rate, released three documents that will help schools, libraries and consortia prepare to apply for E-Rate discounts: a letter from Ira Fishman, CEO of the Schools & Libraries Corporation (SLC), Nine Steps You Can Take Now to Prepare for the Schools and Libraries Universal Service Program, and Questions and Answers on Implementation of the Universal Service Program for Schools and Libraries.

Secretary's letter to FCC Chairman Hundt and Report to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) by the E-Rate Implementation Working Group responding to the FCC's request for the E-rate application process and alternative measures for the required approval of technology plans (July 31, 1997)

This letter from Secretary Riley highlights ways K-12 schools and libraries can begin preparing to benefit from the $2.25 billion fund for discounted telecommunication services, internal connections, and Internet access. Also, here you'll find an analysis of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) ruling and a link to the .

Statement of the Vice President on the FCC E-Rate Decision (May 8, 1997)

Statement by U. S. Secretary of Education Richard W. Riley Regarding FCC Approval of the E-Rate (May 8, 1997)

Statement by Richard W. Riley, U.S. Secretary of Education, on the Decision of the FCC/Joint Board to Provide Universal Service to Schools and Libraries

Joint Letter to FCC from the Secretaries of Education, Commerce, and Agriculture and the Filing with the FCC Federal-State Joint Board on Universal Service (October 10, 1996)

Telecommunications Act of 1996

The Future of Networking Technologies for Learning

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