The E-Rate program has provided nearly every American with access to high-speed internet through public libraries and schools ...

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 ...

Executive Director Julia Fallon says Congress may need to identify legislative means outside of E-rate to solve the home connectivity issue for students.

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.

After the FCC pulled back coverage for school bus Wi-Fi and hotspots, K-12 leaders are scrambling to connect students without ...

For the last six years, patrons of the Brown County Public Library, nestled in rural Ohio, checked out portable Wi-Fi hot spots in droves. The 60 hot spots circulated more than 1,300 times a year, ...

When schools in Kentucky closed for several days last month due to severe flooding, students suddenly began showing up at the Bullitt County Public Library. They had come for the internet. To pay for ...

The Federal Communications Commission approved rules Feb. 18 enabling “schools that receive funding from the E-rate program … to allow members of the general public to use the schools’ Internet access ...