In a major victory for public institutions and the tech companies that support them, the U.S. Supreme Court just preserved the federal funding lifeline that underpins internet access and ...

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, ...

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 U.S. Supreme Court recently heard argument on an important case that has the potential to upend a significant source of technology funding for school systems throughout the country. The FCC v.

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 ...

ORLANDO — District technology leaders are juggling aging infrastructure, cybersecurity demands and staffing shortages on tightening budgets. Two experts at this week's Future of Education Technology ...

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 ...

Earlier this month, the Senate passed S.J.Res.7. The resolution, sponsored by Senator Ted Cruz, would repeal a Biden-era Federal Communications Commission (FCC) rule allowing E-Rate funds to subsidize ...

Thirty years ago, Congress passed the Telecommunications Act of 1996 based on a straightforward principle: The benefits of modern communications networks should reach every community, not just the ...

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 ...

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 ...