Funds For Learning Announces Free Webinar Series
The Funding Year 2013 Form 471 filing window is officially open and applicants can now begin submitting applications for the upcoming funding year. The Funding Year 2013 filing window will be open for...
View ArticleDistricts Look to E-Rate Program to Help With Common Core Tech Costs...
Squeezed for time and short of money, school districts are turning to a familiar source, the federal E-rate program , to help them cover the potentially high costs of upgrading technology to meet the...
View ArticleFunds For Learning Launches Website Redesign, E-rate Filing Window Survival Kit
Funds For Learning has redesigned its website, offering users easy navigation and a searchable repository of valuable E-rate-related information. Developed entirely in-house by the Funds For Learning...
View ArticleE-Rate Deadlines Approaching (Blog Talk Radio)
Funds For Learning CEO John Harrington discusses upcoming E-Rate program deadlines.
View ArticleCoSN’s “Friends of Advocacy Campaign”
Rapidly advancing technology has generated plenty of potential for improvements in 21st century learning environments. But with any new development, bringing products into the education market can be...
View ArticleDistricts Want E-Rate Help Beyond School Walls (Education Week)
As schools incorporate more blended learning and take-home digital assignments, many students face a challenge: how to do their work, which requires Internet access, outside of school hours and school...
View ArticleEvolving E-Rate (EdTech Digest)
Okay, I’ll admit it: I’m a nerd. As much as the self-conscious among us would prefer to be known as technologists, at the end of the day you realize that the world is going to call it how they see it,...
View ArticleFunds For Learning Proposes Plan to Meet E-rate Program Demands (The EdTech...
Funds For Learning®, the nation’s largest E-rate compliance services firm, announced its proposal to modernize the E-rate program this week. The release of the Funds For Learning E-rate 2.0 Proposal...
View ArticleE-Rate Needs Overhaul for Digital Era, Experts Argue (Education Week)
As school districts strive to put more technology into schools to support 1-to-1 computing initiatives and prepare for the common-core online assessments, the federal E-rate program is in danger of...
View ArticleObama Pushes Faster Internet, More Tech Funding for Schools (Education Week)
President Barack Obama is calling for an ambitious overhaul of the federal E-rate program, a step that many education and technology advocates have been urging for years to improve what they see as...
View ArticleBringing Up the Bandwidth (EdTech Digest)
President Obama has called for high speed digital connections to our schools and libraries, “ensuring that 99 percent of American students can benefit” from advances in teaching and learning in the...
View ArticleFunds For Learning Proposal Supports ConnectED Implementation
On June 6, 2013, President Obama announced the ConnectED initiative, a plan to connect 99 percent of U.S. students to the Internet within five years via high-speed wireless and broadband. The FCC has...
View ArticleISTE 2013: How will 99% of U.S. students get high-speed Internet? (Education...
President Barack Obama announced at the beginning of June that he wants to see 99% of U.S. students hooked up to the Internet via high-speed connections within the next five years. Getting to that...
View ArticleHow to Improve the e-Rate (eSchool News)
The United States is credited with bringing forth some of the greatest technologies of our time—technologies that are being used today to raise the standard of education for people of all ages, in all...
View ArticleFunds For Learning Proposes E-Rate 2.0 (THE Journal)
E-rate consultancy Funds for Learning has begun a campaign to encourage the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to update its program for placing Internet access into schools and libraries.
View ArticleFCC to Revisit e-Rate (eSchool News)
The Federal Communications Commission voted on July 19 to open a new rulemaking process aimed at updating and enhancing the federal e-Rate program, which currently provides $2.3 billion in...
View ArticleA Closer Look at the FCC’s Ideas for Revamping the E-Rate (Education Week)
Now that the Federal Communications Commission has issued a notice of proposed rulemaking that sets the stage for major changes to the E-rate program, education and technology advocates are sifting...
View ArticleFCC Steps Up Efforts to Boost Schools’ Online Access (MindShift)
Amidst all the exciting discussions of how to deepen student learning with digital and online tools is a much less exciting, but equally important question about how to schools pay for the expensive...
View ArticleE-Rate Reform: Is It What Schools Really Need Right Now? (Education Dive)
America’s students are behind their peers worldwide, but their disadvantage isn’t just a lack of knowledge in traditional subject areas like math, reading and science—it comes down to the very...
View ArticleEd-Tech Stakeholders Advocate for Boost in E-Rate Cap (eSchool News)
Inadequate internet connectivity is more than an inconvenience to teachers and students—it has the capacity to limit the educational and economic potential of more than 52 million students in more than...
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