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Universal
Service for Schools & Libraries
The FCC is working to bring every school in America into the information
age. The Schools and Libraries Universal
Service program was established as part of the Telecommunications Act
of 1996 to provide affordable telecommunications services to all eligible
schools and libraries, especially those in rural and economically disadvantaged
areas.
| Schools & Libraries
Program and Application |
For more information on and to obtain an application for the Universal
Service Program for schools and libraries, please visit the Universal Service
Administrative Company's Schools
and Libraries Division (SLD) Web Site or call their toll-free customer
number at (888) 203-8100 for answers to questions concerning the Universal
Service Application for Schools and Libraries. The USAC SLD is an independent
not-for-profit corporation established to administer universal service
for Schools & Libraries.
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Release
Date
| Description
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| 9/14/12 |
Acadia Parish School Board Head Start Program, Crowley, Louisiana: In this order, we address 39 requests from petitioners seeking waivers of the FCC Form 471 application filing window deadline and one petition for reconsideration for funding years 2009 2011, and 2012 under the E-rate program.
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DA 12-1482
Order: Word| Acrobat |
| 9/13/12 |
Chadbad Outreach Center, Hollywood, CA: Order denies six requests from petitioners seeking review of decisions made by USAC to deny funding. The Bureau also dismiss two petition for reconsiderations. The petitioners failed to submit their requests for review or waiver either to the Commission or to USAC within 60 days as required by the Commission’s rules.
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DA 12-1494
Order: Word| Acrobat |
| 9/5/12 |
Yakuta School District, Yakutat, AK: The Wireline Competition Bureau dismisses a second E-rate petition for reconsideration filed by Yakutat School District.
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DA 12-1440
Order: Word| Acrobat |
| 8/21/12 |
Iowa Department of Education, Des Moines, IA: In the order, we grant the appeal by the Iowa Department of Education and conclude that USAC can provide E-rate support for telecommunications services provided by ICN for funding years 1998, 1999 and 2000.
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DA 12-788
Order: Word| Acrobat |
| 8/20/12 |
Truth or Consequences Municipal Schools, Truth or Consequences, NM: Consistent with precedent, we deny a request from Truth or Consequences Municipal Schools (TCMS) seeking review of a decision made by the Universal Service Administrative Company (USAC) under the E-rate program (more formally known as the schools and libraries universal service support program) for funding year 2007. In its decision, USAC determined that TCMS violated E-rate program rules by failing to evaluate all the bids it received.
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DA 12-1361
Order: Word| Acrobat |
| 8/10/12 |
Ed Tec Solutions LLC, Lakewood, NJ: The Order grants the requests for review filed by Ed Tec Solutions LLC (Ed Tec) seeking review of a USAC decision rescinding or denying funding for discounted services under the E-rate program because Ed Tec’s contracts allowed payments to be made in installments after the work was completed.
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DA 12-1328
Order: Word| Acrobat |
8/10/12 |
State E-Rate Coordinators' Alliance Public Notice:The Wireline Competition Bureau seeks comment on a petition filed by the State E-rate Coordinators’ Alliance (SECA) asking for clarification on whether and to what extent the Commission’s rules for E-rate (more formally known as the schools and libraries universal service support program) permit service providers to bundle end-user devices and equipment that are ineligible for E-rate support with E-rate eligible services without having to reduce the amount of an applicant’s E-rate funding request by the cost of the ineligible end-user devices and equipment.
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DA 12-1325
Public Notice: Word | Acrobat
SECA Bundled Equipment Petition:
Word | Acrobat
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8/10/12 |
Assumption-All Saints School, Jersey City, NJ: We find violations of the Commission's competitive bidding rules, and therefore deny an appeal filed by 10 applicants and their service provider, Future Generation, Inc.
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DA 12-1323
Order: Word| Acrobat |
8/8/12 |
Graydon Manor School, Leesburg, VA: Order dismisses Graydon Manor’s petition for reconsideration as untimely and also dismisses the petition because it relies on arguments that fail to identify any material error, omission, or reason warranting reconsideration and relies on arguments that have been fully considered and rejected by the Commission within the same proceeding.
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DA 12-1283
Order: Word| Acrobat |
| 8/3/12 |
Baltimore County Public School, Towson, MD, et al: In this order, the Bureau denies 13 requests from petitioners seeking review of decisions made by USAC to deny funding. The Bureau also denies one petition for reconsideration. The petitioners failed to submit their requests for review or waiver either to the Commission or to USAC within 60 days as required by the Commission’s rules.
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DA 12-1261
Order: Word| Acrobat |
| 7/31/12 |
Community Eligibility Option Guidance Letter: In this letter, the Bureau provides USAC with guidance on the impact of the United States Department of Agriculture’s new National School Lunch Program reimbursement mechanism, known as the Community Eligibility Option, on the universal service E-rate program.
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DA 12-1196
Letter: Word| Acrobat |
| 7/30/12 |
Special Education District of Lake County, Gages Lake, IL: The Wireline Competition Bureau denies an appeal of a decision by the Universal Service Administrative Company filed by the Special Education District of Lake County.
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DA 12-1221
Order: Word| Acrobat |
| 7/30/12 |
Burke County Board of Education, Waynesboro, GA: The Wireline Competition Bureau grants an appeal of a decision by the Universal Service Administrative Company filed by the Burke County Board of Education.
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DA 12-1213
Order: Word| Acrobat |
| 7/25/12 |
South Country Central School District, East Patchogue, NY: The Wireline Competition Bureau dismisses an E-rate appeal as moot because the applicant received the services in question after resubmitting a new application.
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DA 12-1190
Order: Word| Acrobat |
| 7/25/12 |
Akisha Networks, Inc., Houston, TX: Consistent with precedent, we deny three appeals seeking review of decisions of the Universal Service Administrative Company under the E-rate program.
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DA 12-1189
Order: Word| Acrobat |
| 7/23/12 |
La Poynor Independent School District, LaRue, TX: In this order, the Bureau grants LaPoynor ISD's request for review seeking review of a decision made by USAC to deny funding because LaPoynor sought cancellation of funding.
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DA 12-1175
Order: Word| Acrobat |
| 7/23/12 |
Al Noor High School, Brooklyn, NY, et al: In this order, the Bureau grants 16 requests for review and/or waiver from petitioners seeking review of decisions made by USAC to deny or rescind funding because the petitioners violated the Commission’s rule that a contract or legally binding agreement be in place when the FCC Form 471 application is submitted.
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DA 12-1172
Order: Word| Acrobat |
| 7/18/12 |
FY 2012 Rollover Public Notice: In this public notice, the Wireline Competition Bureau announces the carry-forward of $1.050 billion in E-rate funds for funding year 2012.
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DA 12-1148
Order: Word| Acrobat |
| 7/13/12 |
Integrity Communications (Brooks Consolidated Independent School District, Falfurrias, TX), et al: Consistent with precedent, we grant 4 requests for review of decisions made by USAC denying funding or seeking recovery of funding provided because the petitioners did not demonstrate that they had sufficient resources to effectively use the E-rate services they sought to purchase. The Bureau also dismisses two appeals for applications that were withdrawn.
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DA 12-1127
Order: Word| Acrobat |
| 7/6/12 |
Albany City School District, Albany, NY, et al: Consistent with precedent, we grant five requests and deny one request from petitioners to correct clerical errors they made in submissions to the Universal Service Administrative Company for support under the E-rate program.
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DA 12-1016
Order: Word| Acrobat |
7/5/12 |
Eligible Services List Public Notice: By this public notice, we seek comment on a draft eligible services list (draft ESL) for the schools and libraries universal support mechanism (E-rate program) for funding year 2013.
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DA 12-1052
Order: Word| AcrobatDraft ESL:
Acrobat
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| 6/21/12 |
The State Educational Technology Directors Association Public Notice: The Wireline Competition Bureau seeks comment on a petition filed by the State Educational Technology Directors Association (SETDA) asking for clarification on the use of funding from the E-rate program (more formally known as the schools and libraries universal service support program) for remote access by teachers and students to virtual private networks (VPNs).
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DA 12-983
Public Notice: Word| Acrobat |
| 6/20/12 |
Colorado Springs School District, Colorado Springs, CO: In this order, we granted the requests for review. Remanded the underlying applications to USAC for further consideration.
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DA 12-962
Order: Word| Acrobat |
| 6/18/12 |
Annunciation Elementary School, Denver, CO: In this order, the Bureau grants two requests for waiver and review from petitioners seeking review of decisions made by USAC to deny funding because the petitioners did not file their FCC Forms 472 or 474 timely. The Bureau also dismiss one request for review as moot.
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DA 12-957
Order: Word| Acrobat |
| 6/12/12 |
Marconi Communications, Inc., Cleveland, OH:Consistent with precedent, we grant a request for waiver filed by Marconi Communications, Inc. regarding the timely submission of an appeal of a USAC COMAD decision. Specifically, we grant the waiver of the appeal filing deadline finding that Marconi submitted its appeal to USAC in a reasonable time period after receiving actual notice of the decision.
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DA 12-915
Order: Word| Acrobat |
| 6/12/12 |
Kearney Public Schools, Kearney, NE:Consistent with E-rate program rules and procedures, we grant a request for review by Kearney Public Schools of a USAC COMAD decision to recover funds that were invoiced to USAC. The appeal specifically requests that USAC reduce the recovery amount for equivalent equipment that was purchased, but that was not the exact equipment originally requested.
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DA 12-914
Order: Word| Acrobat |
| 6/12/12 |
Milburn Public Schools, Milburn, OK:In this order, we address two appeals from Milburn Public Schools seeking review of decisions made by the Universal Service Administrative Company under the E-rate program for funding years 2005 and 2006.
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DA 12-895
Order: Word| Acrobat |
| 6/12/12 |
Birmingham City Schools, Birmingham, AL: Wireline Competition Bureau grants in part and denies in part an appeal of a decision by the Universal Service Administrative Company filed by Birmingham City Schools.
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DA 12-747
Order: Word| Acrobat |
| 6/7/12 |
Albertville City Schools, Albertville, AL, et al: In this order, the Bureau grants 12 requests for waiver and review from petitioners seeking review of decisions made by USAC to deny or reduce funding because the petitioners did not file their FCC Form 486 timely.
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DA 12-894
Order: Word| Acrobat |
| 5/31/12 |
Imagine College Preparatory High School, St. Louis, MO, et al: In this order, the Bureau grants five requests for waiver and review from petitioners seeking review of decisions made by USAC to reduce or deny funding because USAC found that the applicants failed to respond to its requests for additional information within the USAC-specified time frame. Bureau also dismisses one appeal as moot.
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DA 12-855
Order: Word| Acrobat |
| 5/23/12 |
Sprint Nextel Corporation, Anaheim, CA: In this order we grant Sprint's appeal and find that in funding year 2006 Anaheim City sought mobile broadband service that was eligible for funding as Internet access. We also deny Sprint's associated waiver request in the appeal asking that funding be granted to Anaheim City for the end-user connection cards associated with the service.
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DA 12-812
Order: Word| Acrobat |
| 5/22/12 |
CCRC Community Link, Breese, IL et al: Consistent with precedent, this order denies five requests from petitioners seeking review of decisions made by the Universal Service Administrative Company under the E-rate program to deny them funding for an entity ineligible for E-rate support.
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DA 12-797
Order: Word| Acrobat |
| 5/22/12 |
Anderson Elementary School, Sand Springs, OK et al: In this order, we grant 56 requests from petitioners for waivers of the FCC Form 471 application filing window deadline for funding years 2005, 2011 and 2012 under the E-rate program. We deny 18 other such requests.
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DA 12-796
Order: Word| Acrobat |
| 5/21/12 |
Diversified Computer Solutions, Inc., Columbia, SC: The Wireline Competition Bureau dismiss as moot two appeals filed by Diversified Computer Solutions, Inc., on behalf of four school districts after finding that all submitted invoices were funded.
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DA 12-771
Order: Word| Acrobat |
| 5/18/12 |
E-Rate Inflation-Based Cap for FY 2012 Public Notice: The Wireline Competition Bureau announces that the inflation-based increase for the funding year 2012 E-rate is 2.1%, resulting in $48,104,327 more E-rate dollars and raising the cap to $2,338,786,577.
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DA 12-791
Public Notice: Word| Acrobat |
| 5/16/12 |
Diversified Computer Solutions, Inc., Columbia, SC: In this order, the Wireline Competition Bureau grants an E-rate appeal filed by Diversified Computer Solutions, Inc. after finding that USAC should not have rejected an invoice on the basis that the service was not originally requested.
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DA 12-754
Order: Word| Acrobat |
| 5/16/12 |
Academy of Excellence, Phoenix, AR et al: In this order, the Wireline Competition Bureau grants 15 appeals from petitioners seeking to reverse the decisions of the Universal Service Administrative Company (USAC), which found that technology plan rules for the E-rate program had been violated.
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DA 12-753
Order: Word| Acrobat |
| 5/9/12 |
Central Technology Center, Drumright, OK et al: The Wireline Competition Bureau grants 13 and denies eight requests from petitioners found in violation of the Commission's requirement that an FCC Form 470 or request for proposal be available for the entire 28-day period after being posted to USAC's website.
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DA 12-732
Order: Word| Acrobat |
| 5/4/12 |
Billings School District 2, Billings, MT: In the order, we grant and remand the appeal because we conclude that USAC erred in its finding that Billings was building or purchasing a WAN.
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DA 12-716
Order: Word| Acrobat |
| 5/4/12 |
Saint Raphel Academy, Pawtucket, RI: Consistent with the Bureau's Queen of Peace Order (in which the Bureau concluded that allowing applicants to reference specific vendors, products or services on their FCC Form 470 or request for proposal (RFP) poses a risk to the competitive bidding process, but declined to penalize applicants that engaged in such practice prior to release of that order), we grant three appeals filed by Saint Raphael Academy.
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DA 12-708
Order: Word | Acrobat |
| 5/3/12 |
Alex Public School District I-56, Alex, OK: In this order, the Bureau denies 10 requests for review from petitioners seeking review of decisions made by USAC to deny or reduced funding on the grounds that the applicants failed to submit their requests for review or waiver either to the Commission or to USAC within 60 days as required by the Commission's rules.
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DA 12-711
Order: Word | Acrobat |
| 5/3/12 |
Onslow County School District, Jacksonville, NC: In this order, the Bureau grants a request from the Onslow County School District and the North Carolina Office of Information Technology Services (ITS) seeking a waiver of section 54.504(a) of the Commission’s rules and any applicable USAC procedural deadlines in order to allow the current billed entity, ITS, to revise its FCC Form 471 application under the E-rate program as part of the LOTG pilot program.
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DA 12-693
Order: Word | Acrobat |
| 5/3/12 |
Public Works Commission of Fayetteville, et al, Fayetteville, NC: This order addresses 10 appeals concerning denials of E-rate program support for violations of the rule that telecommunications must be provided by a telecommunications carrier. It grants seven (one in part) and denies three.
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DA 12-691
Order: Word | Acrobat |
| 4/27/12 |
South Bay Union School District Order: Consistent with precedent, we deny the petition for waiver filed by South Bay. South Bay seeks waiver of section 54.502, to the extent the rule requires that equipment for PBX be treated as “priority 2” services under the schools and libraries program.
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DA 12-629
Order: Word | Acrobat |
| 4/24/12 |
FY 2012 PIA Approval Letter: In this letter, the Bureau approves USAC's Schools and Libraries Funding Year 2012 Program Integrity Assurance FCC Form 471 Review Procedures.
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DA 12-626
Letter: Word | Acrobat |
| 4/17/12 |
Widefield School District, Austin, TX: The Division grants the appeals of Trillion Partners, Inc. of decisions made by USAC that reduce or deny funding from the E-rate program for Widefield School District 3 (applicant) for various funding years on the grounds that the petitioner and applicant violated the Commission's competitive bidding requirements.
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DA 12-605
Order: Word | Acrobat |
| 4/17/12 |
Kings Canyon Unified School District, Reedley, CA: The Division grants the appeals of Trillion Partners, Inc. and Kings Canyon Unified School District of decisions made by USAC that reduce or deny funding from the E-rate program for various funding years on the grounds that the petitioners violated the Commission's competitive bidding requirements.
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DA 12-604
Order: Word | Acrobat |
| 4/17/12 |
Portales Municipal School District, Portales, NM: In this order, the Bureau denies two requests for review filed by Portales Municipal School District (Portales). The Bureau finds that Portales violated section 54.503 of the Commission's rules because it did not make a bona fide request for services by submitting a complete description of the services it was requesting to enable interested service providers to submit bids. The Bureau also finds that Portales did not have a signed contract in place when it filed its FCC Form 471 in violation of section 54.504 of the Commission's rules.
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DA 12-599
Order: Word | Acrobat |
| 4/16/12 |
Nuestros Valores Charter School, Albuquerque, NM: We deny Nuestros Valores Charter School’s (Nuestros Valores) appeal of USAC's decision under the E-rate program seeking recovery of disbursed funds to Innovative Technology Partnerships for equipment provided to Nuestros Valores when it did not have a location within which to install the equipment, and that it did not install the equipment until five years after the funding year in which it sought funding.
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DA 12-596
Order: Word | Acrobat |
| 4/12/12 |
Beebe Public School, Beebe, AR, et al: In this order, the Bureau grants eight requests for review from petitioners seeking review of decisions made by USAC to deny or reduced funding because the petitioners did not file their FCC Form 486 timely.
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DA 12-569
Order: Word | Acrobat |
| 3/29/12 |
Aberdeen School District 5, Aberdeen, WA, et al: Consistent with precedent, we deny three requests and grant one request from petitioners seeking review of decisions made by the Universal Service Administrative Company under the E-rate program.
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DA 12-489
Order: Word | Acrobat |
| 3/23/12 |
Approach Learning and Assessment Center,Santa Ana, CA: In this order, we grant a request from the Approach Learning and Assessment Center, seeking review of a decision made by the Universal Service Administrative Company.
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DA 12-460
Order: Word | Acrobat |
| 3/22/12 |
Maryland Department of Juvenile Services,Baltimore, MD: Wireline Competition Bureau dismisses as untimely a petition filed by the Maryland Department of Juvenile Services seeking reconsideration of the Wireline Competition Bureau’s Juvenile Services Order, released on May 4, 2011.
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DA 12-433
Order: Word | Acrobat |
| 3/19/12 |
Hondo Valley School District, Hondo, NM et al: The Division grants 8 appeals of decisions made by USAC that reduce or deny funding from the E-rate program for various funding years on the grounds that the funding requests are not cost-effective.
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DA 12-413
Order: Word | Acrobat |
| 3/14/12 |
Networks and More! Inc., Island Heights, NJ: In this order, the Bureau finds improper vendor involvement in the competitive bidding process by the service provider, Networks and More! Inc. and therefore denies 16 requests for review (including a request filed by Long Branch Public Library), and dismisses as moot a request for review filed by Freehold Township Schools.
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DA 12-403
Order: Word | Acrobat |
| 3/12/12 |
Falcon School District 49, Falcon, CO, et al: In this order, we deny five requests for review or request for waiver of USAC decisions regarding the applicants’ urban – rural designation. In each case, the schools are located in areas considered to be urban by E-rate program rules. We therefore affirm USAC’s decisions to classify the applicants as urban, and to calculate their discount levels based on E-rate program rules for urban schools and libraries.
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DA 12-370
Order: Word | Acrobat |
| 3/12/12 |
Enterprise City Schools, Enterprise, AL, et al: In this order we deny five requests for review and/or requests for waiver of USAC decisions to reduce the applicants' requested discount level. USAC reduced the discount rate for each applicant because it was not supported by sufficient documentation. We affirm USAC's decisions.
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DA 12-369
Order: Word | Acrobat |
| 3/6/12 |
Mary Queen of Martyrs, Milwaukee, WI, et al: In this order, the Bureau finds that the petitioners were not required to have signed letters of agency with their consultants and therefore USAC erred in denying their applications.
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DA 12-335
Order: Word | Acrobat |
| 3/6/12 |
Northeast Arizona Technological Institute of Vocational Education, Kayenta, AZ: In this order, the Bureau finds that, despite the failure to correctly indicate on its Form 470 that it had issued an RFP, NATIVE’s Form 470 contained enough detail for service providers to identify the requested services and submit bids and therefore was a not a violation of Commission competitive bidding rules.
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DA 12-334
Order: Word | Acrobat |
| 3/5/12 |
Aberdeen School District 5, Aberdeen, WA, et al: In the order we grant 44 requests from petitioners seeking review of decisions made by USAC under the E-rate program.
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DA 12-300
Order: Word | Acrobat |
| 3/5/12 |
Annette Islands School District, Metlakatla, AK, et al: Six E-rate service implementation appeals granted consistent with the Great Rivers/Tekoa or Bishop Perry Orders.
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DA 12-323
Order: Word | Acrobat |
| 2/24/12 |
Aberdeen School District 5, Aberdeen, WA: Consistent with Commission rules, we grant nine requests from petitioners seeking review of decisions made by the Universal Service Administrative Company (USAC) under the E-rate program.
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DA 12-278
Order: Word | Acrobat |
| 2/24/12 |
AllWays, Inc. (Praire Hills School District 144), Markham, IL: In this order, the Bureau denies 26 E-rate appeals of USAC decisions because the applicants sought funding for service, maintenance or products that are not eligible for E-rate support.
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DA 12-250
Order: Word | Acrobat |
| 2/23/12 |
Oakland Unified School District, Oakland, CA: In this order, we grant a request by Oakland Unified School District for review of decisions by the Universal Service Administrative Company that rescinded funding committed to Oakland under the E-rate program for funding year 2004.
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DA 12-261
Order: Word | Acrobat |
| 2/23/12 |
Charlton County School System, Folkston, GA: Consistent with precedent, we deny seven requests from petitioners seeking review of decisions made by the Universal Service Administrative Company under the E-rate program.
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DA 12-260
Order: Word | Acrobat |
| 2/23/12 |
Callisburg Independent School District, Callisburg, TX: Consistent with precedent, we grant two requests and deny two requests from Callisburg Independent School District and its service provider, Trillion Partners, Inc. which seek review of decisions made by the Universal Service Administrative Company.
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DA 12-259
Order: Word | Acrobat |
| 2/23/12 |
Assabet Valley Regional Vocational District, Marlborough, MA: Consistent with precedent, we grant 12 and deny five requests from petitioners to correct clerical errors they made in submissions to the Universal Service Administrative Company for support under the E-rate program.
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DA 12-240
Order: Word | Acrobat |
| 2/22/12 |
Aberdeen School District, Aberdeen, WA, et al: The Wireline Competition Bureau grants 37 appeals after finding that the petitioners either conducted a fair and open competitive bidding process or demonstrated good cause to waive sections 54.504 and 54.511 of the Commission's competitive bidding rules.
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DA 12-248
Order: Word | Acrobat |
| 2/22/12 |
Laurens County School District, Clinton, SC: The Wireline Competition Bureau denies four appeals after finding that the petitioners violated the Commission's competitive bidding rules.
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DA 12-247
Order: Word | Acrobat |
| 2/22/12 |
Al-lhsan Academy, South Ozone Park, NY: Consistent with precedent, we grant one and deny 16 requests from petitioners seeking review of decisions made by the Universal Service Administrative Company under the E-rate program to deny them funding due to a violation of the program rule requiring the applicant to pay its share of the price of the E-rate discounted services it purchased.
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DA 12-241
Order: Word | Acrobat |
| 2/15/12 |
Learning On-The-Go Order: In this order, we grant in part and deny in part a request for waiver filed by the e-Bookroom Initiative concerning the Learning On-The-Go In the Matter ofPilot Program.
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DA 12-200
Order: Word | Acrobat |
| 2/15/12 |
Marana Unified School District, Marana, AZ: The Division denies appeals of USAC E-rate decisions filed by the Marana Unified School District (Marana) and its service provider, Trillion Partners, Inc. (Trillion), rescinding Marana’s funding commitments for funding years 2006-2010. Specifically, USAC rescinded funding for 12 of Marana’s funding requests as part of its funding year 2006, 2007, and 2008 applications and sought recovery for funding already disbursed for funding years 2007 and 2008 on the ground that Marana violated the Commission’s competitive bidding requirements. For the same reasons, USAC also denied funding for nine of Marana’s funding requests as part of its funding year 2009 and 2010 applications. Upon review of the record, we find that Marana violated the Commission’s competitive bidding requirements. We therefore deny Marana’s and Trillion’s appeals and affirm USAC’s decisions. We direct USAC to continue recovery actions against Marana and its service provider, Trillion, consistent with the order.
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DA 12-196
Order: Word | Acrobat |
| 2/15/12 |
Canon City School District Fremont RE-1, Canon City, CO: Consistent with precedent, we grant 24 requests from petitioners seeking review of decisions made by the Universal Service Administrative Company under the E-rate program.
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DA 12-189
Order: Word | Acrobat |
| 2/15/12 |
Loneman Day School, Ogala, SD: E-rate grant and waiver where school missed services implementation and invoice submission deadlines, due to weather and construction changes.Decision consistent with Bishop Perry and Tekoa Academy Orders.
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DA 12-85
Order: Word | Acrobat |
| 2/8/12 |
Bonnie Brae Educational Center School, Syracuse, NY: In the Bonnie Brae Educational Center School E-rate order, consistent with the Commission’s Boston School Order, we deny 23 appeals of USAC decisions that reduced or denied funding from the E-rate program for various funding years on the grounds that the petitioners failed to submit their requests for review or waiver either to the Commission or to USAC within 60 days as required by the Commission’s rules.
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DA 12-151
Order: Word | Acrobat |
| 2/8/12 |
WiscNet, Chippewa Falls, WI: This order we address 9 appeals in which USAC stated that the applicants had violated the Commission’s competitive bidding requirements because the applicants’ FCC Forms 470 contained contact information for WiscNet, a service provider that participated in the competitive bidding process. We dismiss as moot 4 appeals in which USAC resolved the alleged violation, rescinded the commitment adjustment (COMAD) letters, and issued revised funding commitments. We also grant 5 additional appeals concerning the same alleged issue involving WiscNet.
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DA 12-86
Order: Word | Acrobat |
| 1/25/12 |
Clintonville Public School District, Clintonville, WI: Consistent with precedent, we grant six requests from petitioners seeking review of decisions made by the Universal Service Administrative Company under the E-rate program.
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DA 12-84
Order: Word | Acrobat |
| 1/12/12 |
Los Lunas School District, Los Lunas, NM: Consistent with the Wireline Competition Bureau's decision in the Barrow County School District Order, we grant the appeal filed by Los Lunas School District of a decision by the Universal Service Administrative Company that denies funding.
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DA 12-29
Order: Word | Acrobat |
| 1/12/12 |
Archdiocese of Chicago School, Chicago, IL, et al: Consistent with the Commission's precedent in the Alaska Gateway Order, we grant 22 appeals of decisions by the Universal Service Administrative Company that reduce or deny funding from the E-rate program for various funding years.
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DA 12-28
Order: Word | Acrobat |
| 1/12/12 |
Bais Chaya Mushka, Los Angeles, CA: In this order, we address 31 requests from petitioners seeking waivers of the FCC Form 471 application filing window deadline for funding years 2007, 2010 and 2011 under the E-rate program, including two petitions for reconsideration of an earlier Wireline Competition Bureau decision. Consistent with the Commission’s Academy of Math and Science Order, and based on our review of the record, we find that 15 petitioners have demonstrated that special circumstances exist to justify a waiver of that filing window deadline and we deny the remaining 14 requests for waiver and the two petitions for reconsideration.
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DA 12-27
Order: Word | Acrobat |
1/10/12 |
Integrity Communications, LTD, Corpus Christi, TX: In this Order, we dismiss in part and deny in part an Application for Review filed by Integrity Communications, Ltd. Integrity or Petitioner of a Wireline Competition Bureau order.
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FCC 12-8
Order: Word | Acrobat |
Release
Date
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| FCC/DA#
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| 12/22/11 |
Animas School District 6, Animas, NM: Consistent with our precedent, we grant 46 appeals of decisions made by the Universal Service Administrative Company (USAC) that denied or rescinded funding for various funding years from the E-Rate program (formally known as the universal service schools and libraries program). The applications were denied on the grounds that the petitioners’ violated the Commission’s rule that a contract or legally binding agreement be in place when the FCC Form 471 application is submitted
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DA 11-2040
Order: Word | Acrobat |
| 12/7/11 |
Queen of Peace High School, Burbank, IL: In this order, we grant a request for review filed by Queen of Peace High School (Queen of Peace) seeking review of a decision by the Universal Service Administrative Company (USAC) concerning discounted services under the E-rate program for funding year (FY) 2009. We find that Queen of Peace’s competitive bidding process was not compromised by its inclusion of a service provider name on its FCC Form 470. We therefore grant its request for review and direct USAC to apply this ruling to all pending appeals and applications. We also clarify that the Commission’s competitive bidding rules prohibit applicants from including a particular manufacturer’s name, brand, product or service in an FCC Form 470 or request for proposals (RFPs) unless they also use the words “or equivalent” in such a description.
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DA 11-1991
Order: Word | Acrobat |
| 12/7/11 |
Katy Independent School District, Katy, TX: In this order, we deny an appeal filed by Katy Independent School District (Katy) seeking review of a decision by the Universal Service Administrative Company (USAC) denying funding under the E-rate program. USAC rescinded the funding commitment for one of Katy’s funding requests on the ground that Katy violated the Commission’s competitive bidding requirements because it did not consider price as the primary factor in the vendor selection process. We agree with USAC that Katy did not give overall preference to cost when evaluating the bids and, thus, affirm USAC’s decision to rescind Katy’s funding commitment for FRN 1297321. To the extent funds have already been disbursed under this funding request to Katy or its service provider, Phonoscope, we direct USAC to institute or continue recovery actions against them.
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DA 11-1979
Order: Word | Acrobat |
| 12/5/11 |
Al-Ihsan Academy, South Ozone Park, NY: In this order we grant 5 and deny 6 appeals in E-rate RFP competitive bidding order.
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DA 11-1974
Order: Word | Acrobat |
| 11/29/11 |
Lazo Technologies, Inc., et al: In this order we deny a petition for reconsideration (Petition) filed by Lazo Technologies, Inc., Hill Professional Services, and Advanced Technology Solutions South (Petitioners).
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FCC 11-177
Order: Word | Acrobat |
| 11/28/11 |
Lakehills Consulting, LP Order: In this order, we deny the appeal filed by Joseph M. Hill, trustee in bankruptcy for Lakehills Consulting, LP (Lakehills) of the decision by the Universal Service Administrative Company (USAC) concerning Houston Independent School District’s (Houston ISD) applications for discounted services under the E-rate program (more formally known as the schools and libraries universal service support program) for funding years (FY) 2002-2004.
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FCC 11-175
Order: Word | Acrobat |
| 11/25/11 |
Implementation of Revised Instructions for Form 479 and 486 Public Notice: The Wireline Competition Bureau announce that the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) has approved the revised Instructions accompanying the FCC Forms 479 and 486.
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DA 11-1943
Public Notice: Word | Acrobat
Erratum(12/8/11):
Word | Acrobat
FCC Form 479:
Word | Acrobat
FCC Form 489:
Word | Acrobat
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| 11/4/11 |
Dimmitt Independent School District, TX: In this order, we grant appeals filed by Dimmitt Independent School District, et al. of decisions by the Universal Service Administrative Company concerning applications for discounted services under the E-rate program for FY 2006-2010.
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DA 11-1854
Order: Word | Acrobat |
| 11/1/11 |
Coatesville Area School District, PA: The Bureau dismisses a petition filed by Coatesville Area School District (PA) seeking reconsideration of a decision denying funding after Coatesville failed to submit an appeal to the Commission in a timely manner.
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DA 11-1840
Order: Word | Acrobat |
| 11/1/11 |
Lower Merion School District, PA: In this order, the Bureau grants three requests for review finding that the petitioners did not seek E-rate discounts for ineligible dark fiber and denies one request for review finding that the petitioner sought E-rate funds for ineligible dark fiber.
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DA 11-1835
Order: Word | Acrobat |
| 10/26/11 |
Covert Public School District, Covert, MI: Consistent with precedent, we grant an appeal filed by Covert Public School District (Covert) of a decision by the Universal Service Administrative Company (USAC) to deny funding in funding year 2008 under the E-rate program because Covert’s request for a services implementation deadline extension was late.We remand the underlying applications to USAC for further action consistent with this order, and we direct USAC to grant Covert’s request for a services implementation deadline extension within 90 calendar days from the release of this order.
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DA 11-1791
Order: Word | Acrobat |
| 10/14/11 |
Coordinated Construction, Inc., Los Angeles, CA: In this order, we grant the request for review filed by Coordinated Construction, Inc. seeking review of a decision by the Universal Service Administrative Company to recover funding for violating the USAC requirements.
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DA 11-1699
Order: Word | Acrobat |
| 10/14/11 |
West Virginia Department of Education, Charleston, WV: In this order, we grant the request for review filed by the West Virginia Department of Education on behalf of Summersville Elementary School, seeking review of a decision by the Universal Service Administrative denying funding for discounted services under the E-rate program.
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DA 11-1698
Order: Word | Acrobat |
| 10/6/11 |
Franklin County School District, Louisburg, NC: In this order, we grant a petition for reconsideration by Franklin County School District, Louisburg, North Carolina, (Franklin County) of a decision by the Wireline Competition Bureau (Bureau).
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DA 11-1682
Order: Word | Acrobat |
| 9/30/11 |
SEED Public Charter School of Washington, DC: In this order, we address a consolidated appeal by SEED Public Charter School of Washington, D.C. (SEED) of three decisions by the Universal Service Administrative Company (USAC) denying requests for funding under the E-rate program (more formally known as the schools and libraries universal service support program), on the grounds that the underlying applications violated the Commission’s competitive bidding requirements. As explained below, we find that SEED did not violate the Commission’s competitive bidding rules. We therefore grant the appeal and direct USAC to discontinue recovery actions against SEED and its service providers, Verizon-Washington, D.C., Inc., Avaya, Inc., America Online, CDW Computer Centers, Inc., Dell Marketing, LP, Nextel Communications of Mid-Atlantic, Inc., Starpower Communications, LLC, and Infosys Services, Inc., consistent with this order.
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DA 11-1656
Order: Word | Acrobat |
9/28/11 |
2012 Eligible Service List Order: In this order, we release the eligible services list for funding year 2012 for the schools and libraries universal service program.
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DA 11-1600
Order: Word | Acrobat
ESL Draft:
Acrobat
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| 9/23/11 |
All Saints Elementary School, Los Angeles, CA: In this order, we address 34 requests from petitioners seeking waivers of the FCC Form 471 application filing window deadline for funding years 2007, 2009, and 2011 under the E-rate program. Consistent with the Commission’s Academy of Math and Science Order, and based on our review of the record, we find that two petitioners filed their applications prior to the E-rate program’s FCC Form 471 application filing window deadline and 24 other petitioners have demonstrated that special circumstances exist to justify a waiver of that filing window deadline. We grant those requests for waiver and remand the underlying applications to USAC. We deny, however, the remaining eight requests for waiver.
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DA 11-1588
Order: Word | Acrobat |
| 9/14/11 |
Tulsa Technology Center, Tulsa, OK: In this order, the Bureau grants a request by the Tulsa Technology Center (Tulsa) seeking review of a decision by USAC denying funding for discounted services under the E-rate program. USAC rescinded the funding commitment of one of Tulsa’s funding requests on the ground that Tulsa violated the Commission’s competitive bidding requirements by including the price of ineligible items in its evaluation of the most cost-effective proposal during its vendor selection process. According to the FY 2003 eligible services list, presubscribed interexchange carrier (PIC) change charges and change fees were eligible for discounts. We therefore find that Tulsa’s consideration of the costs associated with changing providers – i.e., PIC change charges and activation fees – was consistent with the Commission’s competitive bidding rules. We therefore direct USAC to discontinue recovery actions against Tulsa and its service provider.
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DA 11-1554
Order: Word | Acrobat |
| 9/14/11 |
Rockwood School District, Eureka, MO: In this order, the Bureau denies Rockwood and Yakutat School Districts' petitions for reconsideration of the Bureau's Beaver Area Memorial Library Order denying the school districts a waiver of the E-rate program’s FCC Form 471 application filing window deadline because the petitions were untimely filed and do not contain any new facts or circumstances that would result in a waiver of the Commission's rules.
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DA 11-1553
Order: Word | Acrobat |
| 9/8/11 |
State of Arkansas Department of Information Systems, Little Rock, AK: In this order, we reconsider a decision by the Wireline Competition Bureau (Bureau) and grant a petition for reconsideration filed by the State of Arkansas Department of Information Systems.
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DA 11-1507
Order: Word | Acrobat |
| 9/2/11 |
Cornwall-Lebanon School District, Lebanon, PA: In this order, consistent with the Bureau's decision in the Barrow County School District Order, the Bureau grants an appeal filed by Cornwall-Lebanon School District of a decision by USAC that reduced funding from the E-rate program for funding year 2010 because Cornwall-Lebanon inadvertently listed the wrong service start date information on its FCC Form 486. As the Bureau found in Barrow County School District Order, minor mistakes such as this do not warrant the complete rejection of this application given that the applicant made a procedural error and did not violate a Commission rule.
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DA 11-1477
Order: Word | Acrobat |
| 9/2/11 |
Maricopa County Regional School District, Phoenix, AZ: In this order, the Bureau dismisses an appeal without prejudice filed by Maricopa County Regional School District of a decision by USAC under the E-rate program for funding year 2008, because USAC subsequently issued a revised funding commitment decision letter approving the funding at issue.
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DA 11-1476
Order: Word | Acrobat |
| 8/22/11 |
Funds for Learning, LLC Order: In this order, we accelerate disbursements of E-rate funding reserves so that more schools and libraries can upgrade their access to broadband services this year. We grant in part the petition filed by Funds for Learning (FFL) and direct the Universal Service Administrative Company (USAC) to make funding commitments for priority two services at the 80 percent discount level for funding year 2010. On our own motion, we reverse our previous decision to deny priority two funding below 80 percent and direct USAC to make available funds for FY 2010 priority two requests at all discount levels. We also announce the carry forward of $850 million in reserved funds from the E-rate program to increase E-rate commitments for funding year 2011. These actions will expand opportunities for education and employment in many communities without increasing the size of the universal service fund.
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DA 11-1354
Order: Word | Acrobat |
| 8/11/11 |
Children's Internet Protection Act (CIPA) Report and Order: The Commission released a Report and Order clarifying the current CIPA rules and requiring E-rate recipient schools, per the Protecting Children in the 21st Century Act, to certify that they have updated their Internet safety policy to include provisions for educating minors about interacting social networking websites and cyberbullying awareness.
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FCC 11-125
Report and Order: Word | Acrobat |
| 8/8/11 |
Riverdale Unified School Distict, Riverdale, CA: In this order, the Bureau grants two requests for review finding that the petitioners Form 470s contained enough information for vendors to identify the desired services and submit bids.
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DA 11-1370
Order: Word | Acrobat |
| 8/8/11 |
Coahoma County School District, Clarksdale, MS: In this order,the Bureau grants an appeal finding that the petitioner did not violate its state and local procurement laws when selecting a vendor from a state master contract.
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DA 11-1369
Order: Word | Acrobat |
| 8/8/11 |
Baltimore City School District, Baltimore, MD: In this order, the Bureau grants two requests for review finding that the petitioners did not violate the Commission's competitive bidding rules when selecting vendors using a tiered selection process.
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DA 11-1368
Order: Word | Acrobat |
| 8/5/11 |
E-Rate Inflation-Based Cap Public Notice: In this public notice, the Bureau announces that the E-rate program funding cap for funding year 2011 is $2,290,682,250. The new cap represents a 0.9% inflation-adjusted increase from funding year 2010’s $2,270,250,000 cap.
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DA 11-1345
Public Notice: Word | Acrobat |
| 8/4/11 |
ABC Unified School District,Cerritos, CA, et al: In this order, consistent with the Bureau’s decision in the Alton Order, we grant 24 appeals of decisions by USAC reducing or denying funding for various funding years under the E-rate program on the grounds that the petitioners’ invoice forms were submitted late or not received by USAC.
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DA 11-1332
Order: Word | Acrobat |
| 8/3/11 |
Burlington Township School District, Burlington, NJ : In this order, consistent with the Commission’s decision in the Alpaugh Unified School District Order, we grant four appeals of decisions by the Universal Service Administrative Company (USAC) that reduce or deny funding from the E-rate program for various funding years because USAC found that the applicants failed to respond to USAC’s requests for additional information within the USAC-specified time frame.
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DA 11-1241
Order: Word | Acrobat |
| 8/3/11 |
Brancoft Neurohealth, Chery Hill, NJ, et al: In this order, consistent with the Commission’s decision in the Alaska Gateway Order, we grant 13 appeals of decisions by the Universal Service Administrative Company (USAC) that reduce or deny funding from the E-rate program for various funding years because USAC found the applicants failed to timely submit FCC Forms 486.
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DA 11-1239
Order: Word | Acrobat |
| 7/27/11 |
Loving Municipal School School, Loving, NM: In this order, we deny a request for review filed by Loving Municipal Schools (Loving) seeking review of a decision by the Universal Service Administrative Company (USAC) denying its funding requests for one of its schools under the E-rate program for funding year 2004 on the ground that the requested discount level was not supported by sufficient documentation.
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DA 11-1246
Order: Word | Acrobat |
| 7/27/11 |
Boston Renaissance School, Boston, MA, et al: In this order, we deny 50 appeals of decisions made by the Universal Service Administrative Company (USAC) that reduce or deny funding from the schools and libraries universal service support mechanism (also known as the E-rate program) for various funding years on the grounds that the petitioners failed to submit their appeals either to the Commission or to USAC within 60 days as required by the Commission’s rules.
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DA 11-1240
Order: Word | Acrobat |
| 7/27/11 |
Beaver Area Memorial Library, Beaver, PA, et al: In this order, we address 39 requests from petitioners seeking waivers of the FCC Form 471 application filing window deadline for funding years 2009-2011 under the E-rate program.
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DA 11-1223
Order: Word | Acrobat |
| 7/27/11 |
Achieve Career Preparatory Academy, Toledo, OH: In this order, we address 22 appeals of decisions by the Universal Administrative Company (USAC) denying funding to the petitioners due to certain clerical or ministerial errors on their FCC Form 471 applications for funding years 2004-2010 under the E-rate program.
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DA 11-1208
Order: Word | Acrobat |
| 7/11/11 |
Learning on the Go Order: The Bureau provides a summary of the projects selected to participate in the Learning On-The-Go pilot program, the review process, and a list of required information to be included in the participants' reports during the trial period.
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DA 11-1181
Order: Word | Acrobat |
| 6/29/11 |
Clean Draft Format of Proposed E-rate Eligible Service List Public Notice: WCB Releases Clean Version of Proposed Draft Eligible Services List for Funding Year 2012.
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DA 11-1141
Public Notice: Word | Acrobat
ESL Draft:
Acrobat
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| 6/24/11 |
E-rate Eligible Service List Public Notice: WCB Seeks Comment on Proposed Funding Year 2012 E-rate Eligible Services List. Comments are due on July 15, 2011, and reply comments are due on July 25, 2011.
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DA 11-1096
Public Notice: Word | Acrobat
ESL List:
Acrobat
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| 6/22/11 |
Saint Paul Public Schools, Saint Paul, MN: Saint Paul Public Schools (Saint Paul), Saint Paul, Minnesota, sought review of a decision by the Universal Service Administrative Company (USAC) concerning Saint Paul’s application for discounted services under the E-rate program for funding year 2003.
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DA 11-1088
Order: Word | Acrobat |
| 6/22/11 |
Central Islip Free Union School District, Central Islip, NY: In this order, we address six appeals of decisions by the Universal Service Administrative Company (USAC) denying requests for funding under the E-rate program (more formally known as the schools and libraries universal service support program).
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DA 11-1087
Order: Word | Acrobat |
| 6/9/11 |
Ramirez Common School District, Realitos, TX: This order grants a waiver of section 54.503 of the Commission’s competitive bidding rules. USAC denied five of Ramirez’s funding requests on the ground that Ramirez violated the Commission’s competitive bidding requirements. Upon review of the record, we find that a waiver of section 54.503 of the Commission’s rules, which requires applicants to seek competitive bids for E-rate eligible products and services, is in the public interest.
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DA 11-1039
Order: Word | Acrobat |
| 6/8/11 |
Lincoln Parish School Board, Ruston, LA: In this order, we dismiss as untimely three petitions for reconsideration of decisions by the Wireline Competition Bureau (Bureau) or the Commission.
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DA 11-1018
Order: Word | Acrobat |
| 6/7/11 |
2011 PIA Procedure Approval Letter: WCB approves the E-rate funding year 2011 program integrity assurance FCC Form 471 review procedures subject to the substantive edits as provided in the confidential attachment.
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DA 11-1001
Letter: Word | Acrobat |
| 5/17/11 |
Odyssey Charter School, Las Vegas, NV: In this order, we resolve an appeal of a USAC decision concerning the school's discount calculation. In the order we grant Odyssey Charter’s request for review of a USAC decision and provide the schools with 60 days to provide additional documentation to support their requested discount level.
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DA 11-897
Order: Word | Acrobat |
| 5/17/11 |
Gila Bend Unified School District 24, Gila Bend, AZ: In this order, we denies two appeals filed by Gila Bend Unified School District concerning its applications for funding under the E-rate program. The order finds that Gila failed to retain the required documentation that would demonstrate its compliance with the Commission’s competitive bidding rules.
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DA 11-896
Order: Word | Acrobat |
| 5/17/11 |
Cascade School District #422, Cascade, ID: In this order, Wireline Competition Bureau denies an appeal filed by Cascade School District concerning its application for funding under the E-rate program. The order finds that Cascade failed to demonstrate compliance with the Commission’s competitive bidding rules.
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DA 11-895
Order: Word | Acrobat |
| 5/11/11 |
Sacred Heart School, Shawano, WI: In this order, we reconsider a decision by the Wireline Competition Bureau (Bureau) and grant an application for review filed by Sacred Heart School, Shawano, Wisconsin (Sacred Heart). Sacred Heart seeks review of the Bureau’s February 3, 2005 order affirming a decision made by the Schools and Libraries Division of the Universal Service Administrative Company (USAC) to dismiss Sacred Heart’s appeal to USAC because it was postmarked more that 60 days after the date on an FCC Form 471 Outside of Window letter.
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DA 11-820
Order: Word | Acrobat |
| 5/4/11 |
Maryland Department of Juvenille Services, Baltimore, MD: Wireline Competition Bureau denies the petition of the Maryland Department of Juvenile Services seeking a waiver of section 54.503 of the Commission’s competitive bidding rules to enable Juvenile Services to use an existing multi-year contract without filing an FCC Form 470 and initiating a new competitive bidding process under the E-rate program.
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DA 11-835
Order: Word | Acrobat |
| 4/27/11 |
Lancaster School District, Lancaster, PA: Wireline Competition Bureau grants Lancaster School District, Lancaster, PA, an extension of services delivery implementation deadline for non-recurring services under the E-rate program.
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DA 11-741
Order: Word | Acrobat |
| 4/21/11 |
Allendale County Schooh District, Cedar Mountain, NC, et al: Wireline Competition Bureau addresses 19 appeals of decisions by USAC denying requests for funding under the E-rate program. The order finds that seven petitioners did not violate the Commission's competitive bidding rules. In 12 other instances, the order finds that a waiver of the Commission’s rules is in the public interest.
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DA 11-723
Order: Word | Acrobat |
| 4/14/11 |
Erate Correction Deadline Order: In this order, the Commission extends the deadline for applicants under the E-rate program to submit corrections of clerical or ministerial errors on their FCC Forms 470 and FCC Form 471 applications until USAC issues a funding commitment decision letter to the applicant.
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FCC 11-60
Order: Word | Acrobat |
| 4/13/11 |
Albuquerque School District, et al, Albuquerque, NM: In this order, we grant 13 appeals and deny 19 appeals of decisions by the Universal Service Administrative Company concerning applications in various funding years for discounted services under the E-rate program. All of the appeals concern applicants denied funding by USAC for alleged violations of the Commission’s competitive bidding rules.
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DA 11-672
Order: Word | Acrobat |
| 4/13/11 |
Clare-Gladwin Regional Education Service District, Clare, MI: In this order, we grant two appeals of decisions by the Universal Service Administrative Company under the E-rate program because the entities at issue were ineligible for funding. Consistent with precedent and based on our review of the record, we find that both petitioners have provided sufficient evidence to demonstrate that the entities at issue were eligible for support.
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DA 11-607
Order: Word | Acrobat |
| 4/13/11 |
Alpine Union School District, Alpine, CA: In this order, we grant six requests for review of decisions of the Universal Service Administrative Company denying petitioners funding under the E-rate program for funding years (FYs) 2003 to 2008. USAC denied petitioners funding on the grounds that they sought telecommunications services from providers that were not telecommunications carriers, in violation of E-rate rules.
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DA 11-606
Order: Word | Acrobat |
| 4/13/11 |
Al-Noor School, Brooklyn, NY: In this order, we address 11 requests from petitioners seeking waivers of the FCC Form 471 application filing window deadline for funding years 2009 and 2010 under the E-rate program. Consistent with the Commission’s Academy of Math and Science Order, and based on our review of the record, we find that two petitioners have demonstrated that special circumstances exist to justify a waiver of the E-rate program’s FCC Form 471 application filing window deadline. We grant those requests for waiver and remand the underlying applications to the Universal Service Administrative Company for further action consistent with this order. We deny, however, nine requests for waiver because we find that the petitioners failed to present special circumstances to justify a waiver of the Commission’s rules.
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DA 11-605
Order: Word | Acrobat |
| 4/13/11 |
Twiggs County School District, Jeffersonville, GA: In this order, we deny the requests for review filed by Twiggs County School District and American Control Systems, Inc. of a decision by the Universal Service Administrative Company under the E-rate program for funding year 2003.We affirm USAC’s decision denying ACS’s request for an extension of the service delivery deadline for the requested recurring services.
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DA 11-599
Order: Word | Acrobat |
| 3/30/11 |
Little Flower School, Cincinnati, OH: In this order, we grant an appeal filed by Little Flower School (Little Flower) of a decision by the Universal Service Administrative Company (USAC) reducing a discount sought in an application for services under the E-rate program for funding year 2006.
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DA 11-578
Order: Word | Acrobat |
| 3/22/11 |
Barrow County School District, Ellijay, GA, et al: In this order, the Bureau grants six appeals of decisions by USAC that reduce or deny funding from the E-rate program for various funding years. USAC reduced or denied funding based on the service start date information provided on the FCC Form 486 submitted by the applicants. The applicants affected by the USAC decisions state that they submitted the incorrect service start date when filing FCC Forms 486. As WCB found in Glendale Unified School District, minor mistakes such as this do not warrant the complete rejection of these applications given that the applicants made a procedural error and did not violate a Commission rule. Therefore, we find good cause to grant the appeals and remand the underlying applications to USAC for further action consistent with this order.
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DA 11-533
Order: Word | Acrobat |
| 3/16/11 |
Challis Joint School District #181, Challis, ID: In this order, we deny the request for review by Challis Joint School District #181 (Challis) of a decision of the Universal Service Administrative Company (USAC) concerning applications for discounted services under the E-rate program.
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DA 11-490
Order: Word | Acrobat |
| 3/9/11 |
E-Rate Deployed Ubiquitously (EDU) 2011 Selected Applicants PN: In this Public Notice, the Bureau announces it selection of 20 projects for the E-rate Deployed Ubiquitously (EDU) 2011 wireless pilot program. These projects will support mobile access to the Internet in order to improve educational opportunities for students or to help library patrons find and apply for jobs. The initiatives range from off-campus access to e-textbooks for students; to connectivity for netbooks for students living in remote, isolated areas; to access to flexible, online education programs for home-bound students unable to attend classes because of medical challenges.
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DA 11-439
Public Notice: Word | Acrobat |
| 3/7/11 |
Chicago Public Schools, Chicago, IL: In this order, we grant six requests for review of decisions by the Universal Service Administrative Company (USAC) denying applications for discounted services under the schools and libraries universal service support mechanism, also known as the E-rate program, for funding years 2002, 2004, and 2005.
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FCC 11-39
Order: Word | Acrobat |
| 2/18/11 |
Funds For Learning Public Notice: The Wireline Competition Bureau seeks comment on a petition by Funds For Learning, LLC. to reject the Universal Service Administrative Company's priority two discount threshold recommendation for the schools and libraries program for funding year 2010.
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DA 11-331
Public Notice: Word | Acrobat |
| 2/18/11 |
Blitz Communications, Inc., Chicago, IL: In this order, a short-form grant of appeals where applicants mistakenly assumed FCC Form 500 extended their services implementation deadline.
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DA 11-303
Order: Word | Acrobat |
| 2/18/11 |
Bridgeport School District, Bridgeport, CT: In this order, a short form grant of separate appeals from 3 petitioners giving them another chance to show that they met the E-rate program requirement of having the necessary resources to effectively use the E-rate services they sought.
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DA 11-301
Order: Word | Acrobat |
| 2/18/11 |
Barberton City School District, Barberton, OH: In this order, we deny Barberton City School District’s request for review. We find that USAC correctly applied the rules for the alternative discount mechanisms to determine the applicant's discount level.
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DA 11-291
Order: Word | Acrobat |
| 1/14/11 |
Clarification on the Treatment of FCC Form 471 Item 21 Attachments Order: In this order, we clarify the treatment of attachments to applications for the E-rate program.
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DA 11-88
Order: Word | Acrobat |
| 1/14/11 |
Camden City Public Schools, Camden, NJ: In this order, we grant three requests for waiver by school districts seeking approval to use the E-rate discounts committed for equipment or services in specified schools within their districts at other eligible schools.
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DA 11-87
Order: Word | Acrobat |
| 1/14/11 |
Bayless Intermediate School, St. Louis, MI: In this order, we grant an appeal filed by Bayless Intermediate School (Bayless) of a decision of the Universal Service Administrative Company (USAC) denying its funding request for discounts under the E-rate program. We find that Bayless complied with the E-rate program’s competitive bidding rules.
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DA 11-86
Order: Word | Acrobat |
| 1/14/11 |
Bryan Independent School District, Bryan, TX: In this order, we grant an appeal filed by Bryan Independent School District (Bryan) of a decision of the Universal Service Administrative Company (USAC) denying Bryan discounts under the E-rate program.
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DA 11-85
Order: Word | Acrobat |
| 1/14/11 |
Youthbuild Columbus Community School, Columbus, OH: In this order, we grant an appeal filed by Youthbuild Columbus Community School (Youthbuild) of a decision of the Universal Service Administrative Company (USAC) rescinding funding already committed to Youthbuild under the E-rate program.
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DA 11-83
Order: Word | Acrobat |
| 1/13/11 |
Warren Village School, Warren, NH : In this order, we grant a request for review filed by Warren Village School (Warren) of a decision by the Universal Service Administrative Company (USAC) denying funding under the E-rate program for funding year 2003.
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DA 11-59
Order: Word | Acrobat |
1/6/11 |
2010 E-Rate Program and Broadband Usage Survey Release: WCB Releases Summary of 2010 E-Rate Program and Broadband Usage Survey.
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DA 10-2414
Summary: Word | Acrobat
News Release: Word | Acrobat |
Release
Date
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| 12/29/10 |
Academia Bautista de Puerto Nuevo, San Juan, Puerto Rico: Academia Bautista de Puerto Nuevo, et al (7-15 Day Remand Global): In this order, we grant 29 appeals of decisions by the Universal Service Administrative Company (USAC) that reduce or deny funding from the schools and libraries universal service support program for various funding years because USAC found that the applicants failed to respond to USAC’s requests for additional information within the USAC-specified time frame. Consistent with the Commission’s Alpaugh Unified School District Order, and based on our review of the record, we find that complete rejection of these applications is not warranted, given that the applicants missed a USAC procedural deadline and did not violate a Commission rule.
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DA 10-2425
Order: Word | Acrobat |
| 12/29/10 |
Al-Ishan Academy, South Ozone Park, NY, et al: In this order, we grant 50 appeals from petitioners seeking to reverse the decisions of the Universal Service Administrative Company (USAC), which found that technology plan rules for the E-rate program had been violated.
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DA 10-2424
Order: Word | Acrobat |
| 12/20/10 |
Baker Hall School, Buffalo, NY, et al:In this order, we grant seven appeals of decisions by the Universal Service Administrative Company (USAC) denying funding from the schools and libraries universal service support program (also known as the E-rate program) for various funding years on the grounds that petitioners sought cancellation of their funding requests.
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DA 10-2370
Order: Word | Acrobat |
| 12/16/10 |
Ann Arbor Public Schools, Ann Arbor, MI, et al:In this order, we grant 38 appeals of decisions of the Universal Service Administrative Company (USAC) from schools and libraries seeking to correct ministerial or clerical errors on their FCC Forms 470 and 471 and other related forms for funding under the E-rate program.
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DA 10-2354
Order: Word | Acrobat |
| 12/16/10 |
Academy St. Benedict, et al: In this order, we grant 45 appeals of decisions by the Universal Service Administrative Company (USAC) that reduce or deny funding from the schools and libraries universal service support program (also known as the E-rate program) for various funding years because USAC found that the applicants failed to timely submit FCC Forms 486.
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DA 10-2352
Order: Word | Acrobat |
| 12/15/10 |
Wireline Competition Bureau Provides Guidance on E-rate Sixth Report and Order: Guidance on Schools and Libraries Universal Service Support Program Sixth Report and Order Public Notice: On September 28, 2010, the Commission released the Sixth Report and Order. To provide further guidance to E-rate program participants, the Bureau provides effective dates for each of the adopted proposals in the Sixth Report and Order and a list of frequently asked questions regarding the rules adopted in the Sixth Report and Order.
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DA 10-2356
Public Notice: Word | Acrobat |
| 12/15/10 |
Wireline Competition Bureau Provides Guidance on E-rate Basic Maintenance and Gift Rules: The clarification order addresses questions received by the Bureau regarding the Commission’s ruling on the eligibility of basic maintenance and the newly codified E-rate program gift rules.
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DA 10-2355
Order: Word | Acrobat |
| 12/6/10 |
Green Bay Area Public School District, Green Bay, WI: The Wireline Competition Bureau granted an appeal of a USAC decision filed by Green Bay Area Public School District after finding that Green Bay did not violate the Commission's competitive bidding requirements.
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DA 10-2305
Order: Word | Acrobat |
| 12/6/10 |
Business Technologies, Inc., Greenville, SC: The Wireline Competition Bureau granted 8 appeals following the rationale of our 2007 Aiken Order. Permits 5 petitioners to remove ineligible services from their applications and receive funding for at least their eligible P1 services, and 3 other petitioners to separate priority 1 and 2 services, so that they can receive funding for the P1 services.
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DA 10-2304
Order: Word | Acrobat |
| 12/6/10 |
Explore Knowledge Academy Charter School, Las Vegas, NV: The Wireline Competition Bureau granted three requests for review of USAC decisions that reduced each applicant’s discounts for funding years 2005 and 2006. Specifically, USAC reduced the applicants’ funding on the ground that the applicants’ requested discount levels were not supported by sufficient documentation. Consistent with precedent, this order directs USAC to provide applicants with a limited 15-day opportunity to file additional documentation to support their requested discount levels.
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DA 10-2301
Order: Word | Acrobat |
| 12/6/10 |
Davidson County School, Lexington, NC: The Wireline Competition Bureau denied a petition for reconsideration on the grounds that it was filed late with the Commission.
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DA 10-2300
Order: Word | Acrobat |
| 12/6/10 |
Achieve Telecom Network, Canton, MA: The Wireline Competition Bureau granted an appeal filed by Achieve Telecom on behalf of Somerville School District in Somerville, Massachusetts. Based on precedent in the Albert Lea Order, we find that Somerville did not violate the program's competitive bidding rules by failing to note on the FCC Form 470 that it was seeking a multiyear contract with voluntary contract extensions.
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DA 10-2299
Order: Word | Acrobat |
| 11/23/10 |
Fund for Learning Public Notice: The Wireline Competition Bureau seeks comment on petition for clarification regarding the definition of "consultant" and confidentiality of consultant information required by FCC FORMS 470 AND 471.
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DA 10-2234
Public Notice: Word | Acrobat |
| 11/23/10 |
California Waiver Petition Order: In this order, The Wireline Competition Bureau granted a waiver to the California State Department of Technology Services relating to a clerical error on the FCC Form 470.
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DA 10-2217
Order: Word | Acrobat |
| 11/23/10 |
Associated Marine Institutes, Tampa, FL: In this order, The Wireline Competition Bureau granted 26 appeals that sought extension of the deadline for delivery of non-recurring services under the E-rate program.
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DA 10-2216
Order: Word | Acrobat |
| 11/23/10 |
Argos Public Library, Argos, Indiana, et al: In this order, The Wireline Competition Bureau released an order resolving 52 appeals from E-rate applicants that missed the FCC Form 471 filing window deadline.
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DA 10-2215
Order: Word | Acrobat |
| 11/19/10 |
Forms 470 and 471 Revisions: The Wireline Competition Bureau (Bureau) announces that revised FCC Forms 470 and 471 and their accompanying instructions have been approved for use by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB).
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DA 10-2218
Public Notice: Word | Acrobat |
| 11/8/10 |
E-Rate Deployed Ubiquitously 2011 Pilot Program: The Wireline Competition Bureau announces the application date for the E-rate deployed ubiquitously 2011 pilot program.
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DA 10-2128
Public Notice: Word | Acrobat |
| 10/28/10 |
Cornerstones of Care, et al, Kansas City, MI: In this order, we address 10 appeals of decisions by the Universal Service Administrative Company (USAC) denying requests for funding under the E-rate program (more formally known as the schools and libraries universal service support program) on the ground that the consortia leaders did not provide sufficient evidence of their authority to represent the consortium members.
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DA 10-2071
Order: Word | Acrobat
Erratum(11/4/10):
Word | Acrobat
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10/18/10 |
Abbeville County School Distric, Abbeville, SC: In this order, the Bureau grants three requests from petitioners seeking to transfer funding commitments granted under the E-rate program. USAC denied petitioners’ requests to transfer E-rate funding commitments from schools that had been closed to other schools within the district. USAC found that the asset transfers did not fit into either category of transfers specifically permitted under the Commission’s rules. We find that these transfers are permitted under the E-rate program rules.
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DA 10-1997
Order: Word | Acrobat |
| 10/15/10 |
Integrity Communications, LTD Public Notice: Wireline Competition Bureau (Bureau) seeks comment on Integrity Communications, Inc. application for review of the Bureau's Integrity Order on Reconsideration in which the Bureau denied Integrity’s request for review of a decision by the Universal Service Administrative Company under the Commission’s schools and libraries universal service support program.
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DA 10-1990
Public Notice: Word | Acrobat |
| 9/28/10 |
Schools and Libraries Sixth Report and Order (Broadband). In this order, the Commission upgrades and modernizes the E-rate program to bring fast, affordable Internet access to schools and libraries across the country, and eliminates rules that no longer serve their intended purpose. Specifically, the Commission adopts a number of the proposals put forward in the E-rate Broadband NPRM. These revisions fall into three conceptual categories: (1) enabling schools and libraries to better serve students, teachers, librarians, and their communities by providing more flexibility to select and make available the most cost-effective broadband and other communications services; (2) simplifying and streamlining the E-rate application process; and (3) improving safeguards against waste, fraud, and abuse. |
FCC 10-175
News Release (9/23/10):
Word | Acrobat
Erratum(11/8/10):
Word | Acrobat
Order:
Acrobat
Genachowski Statement:
Word | Acrobat
Copps Statement:
Word | Acrobat
McDowell Statement:
Word | Acrobat
Clyburn Statement:
Word | Acrobat
Baker Statement:
Word | Acrobat
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| 8/11/10 |
Progressive Communications, Inc., Eastman, GA: In this order the WCB granted an appeal of a decision by the Universal Service Administrative Company concerning applications for discounted services under the E-rate program for funding year 2008.
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DA 10-1470
Order: Word | Acrobat |
| 8/6/10 |
Beth Rivka School, Brooklyn, NY, et al: In this order the WCB denies requests by five applicants to substantively amend their applications many months after the filing deadline. Chicago Public Schools, Buffalo City School District, and Edison Schools Consortium sought to modify their FCC Form 471 applications to raise their discount levels so that they would be eligible to receive priority 2 funding. Beth Rivka School and Dale County School District sought to revise their applications to include additional services.
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DA 10-1447
Order: Word | Acrobat |
| 7/8/10 |
Academy of Math and Science, Tucson, AZ, et al.: The Commission addresses 257 requests from petitioners seeking waivers of the FCC Form 471 application filing window deadline for various funding years under the E-rate program. The Commission grants 97 requests and 2 requests in part because the petitioners either timely filed their FCC Forms 471 or the petitioners have demonstrated that special circumstances exist justifying a waiver of the filing deadline. The Commission denies 158 requests and 2 requests in part because the petitioners failed to present special circumstances justifying a waiver of the filing deadline.
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FCC 10-122
Order: Word | Acrobat |
| 7/7/10 |
Data Research Corporation: In this order, the Bureau grants a petition filed by Data Research Corporation (DRC) requesting that the Commission direct USAC to process certain funding requests under the E-rate program for funding year 2001 and grants DRC’s request to withdraw its petition for reconsideration of a Commission order.
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DA 10-1265
Order: Word | Acrobat |
| 7/1/10 |
E-Rate Bidding Process: Sought comment on proposed revisions to two E-rate program forms (FCC Forms 470 and 471). |
DA 10-1248
Public Notice: Word | Acrobat
Form 470: Word | Acrobat
Instructions: Word | Acrobat
Form 471: Word | Acrobat
Instructions: Word | Acrobat |
| 7/1/10 |
Integrity Communications,Ltd., Corpus Christi, TX: Denied Integrity's petition for reconsideration of a Bureau order (DA 09-1946, rel. Aug. 28, 2009) that upheld USAC's audit finding that Integrity violated E-rate rules.
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DA 10-1244
Order: Word | Acrobat |
| 7/1/10 |
Carryover of Unused Schools and Libraries Universal Service Funds for Funding Yr 2010: Announced that, pursuant to section 54.507(a)(2) of the Commission’s rules, $900 million in unused funds will be carried forward from Funding Years 2002 and 2005 through 2008 to increase the disbursements to schools and libraries in Funding Year 2010.
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DA 10-1243
Public Notice: Word | Acrobat |
| 6/9/10 |
Comment Deadlines for the E-rate Broadband NPRM, the E-Rate ESL NPRM, and the Draft FY 2011 ESL: Comments are due by July 9, 2010 and reply comments are due by July 26, 2010, for the E-rate Broadband NPRM released by the Commission on May 20, 2010, and the ESL Order and FNPRM released by the Commission on December 2, 2009. WCB is also seeking comment on the draft Eligible Services List (ESL) proposed by the Universal Service Administrative Company (USAC) for E-rate funding year 2011.
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DA 10-1045
Public Notice: Word | Acrobat |
| 6/4/10 |
The Bronx Charter School for Better Learning, Bronx, NY: In this order, WCB grants a request for review of a USAC decision that reduced funding on the ground that Bronx Charter’s documentation did not support the requested discount level. WCB finds that the school's assessment was correct and that USAC should have used a different method to calculate the discount level. WCB therefore remands the application to USAC for further action consistent with this order.
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DA 10-1018
Order: Word | Acrobat |
| 6/4/10 |
Illinois State Board of Education, Chicago, IL: In
this order, WCB grants a request for review of a USAC decision that
denied funding on the ground that Illinois BOE's services were obtained
pursuant to a tariff which was not covered by a valid FCC Form 470,
rather than the applicant's state master contract. WCB finds that
the Illinois BOE was exercising a voluntary renewal option in its state
master contract and, therefore, was operating under a valid contract. WCB
therefore remands the application to USAC for further action consistent
with this order. |
DA 10-1019
Order: Word | Acrobat |
| 6/2/10 |
EFT Public Notice: In this public notice, to facilitate the processing of the electronic funds transfer (EFT) announced by the Bureau in September 2009, the Bureau establishes the effective date of August 31, 2010 for the electronic disbursement requirement. After August 31, 2010, if a recipient of universal service support payments fails to provide the required financial institution information on its FCC Form 498 to enable payment by EFT, USAC will not make universal service support payments to that entity until the entity provides the required information.
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DA 10-270
Public Notice: Word | Acrobat |
| 6/2/10 |
Alton Community Unit School District 11, Alton, IL et
al: In this order, the Bureau addresses issues related to the USAC E-rate invoicing process and clarifies that an electronic funds transfer mechanism to distribute universal service support payments invoiced by service providers does not conflict with the Commission's directive that service providers must remit the E-rate discount amount to the applicant "prior to tendering or making use of the payment from the Administrator."
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DA 10-999
Order: Word | Acrobat |
| 5/26/10 |
Agra Public School I-134, Agra, OK: In this order, WCB denies 104 appeals of decisions by USAC under the Universal Service E-rate program. WCB finds that the petitioners failed to submit their appeals to either the Commission or to USAC within 60 days as required by the Commission’s rules. Additionally, the petitioners did not show special circumstances necessary for the Commission to waive the 60-day deadline for filing an appeal.
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DA 10-929
Order: Word | Acrobat |
| 5/20/10 |
E-Rate Broadband Notice of Proposed Rulemaking: This Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) initiates one in a series of rulemaking proceedings to implement the National Broadband Plan’s vision of improving and modernizing the universal service programs. Specifically, this NPRM represents the first step toward upgrading the use of broadband by students and our communities through the E-rate program to create more opportunities for educational advances, economic growth, government delivery of services, and civic engagement. This NPRM seeks comment on a package of potential reforms to the E-rate program that could be implemented in funding year 2011 (July 1, 2011 – June 30, 2012). The reforms proposed in this NPRM fall into three conceptual categories: streamlining the E-rate application process, providing greater flexibility to choose the most cost-effective and educationally useful broadband services, and expanding the reach of broadband to the classroom.
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FCC 10-83
NPRM: Word | Acrobat |
| 5/20/10 |
Idaho Falls School District 91, Idaho Falls, ID: In this order, WCB grants a request for review of a USAC decision to deny a request by Idaho Falls to change its service provider. Specifically, the Bureau grants a waiver of the Commission’s competitive bidding rules and permits USAC to allow Idaho Falls to change its service provider. WCB finds that Idaho Falls’ leased WAN service should have been categorized as Internet access rather than telecommunications by USAC. Idaho Falls’ failure to seek bids for this service as Internet access was arguably a violation of the Commission’s competitive bidding requirements because of the possibility that its FCC Form 470 did not describe its desired service sufficiently to enable potential service providers to submit bids. WCB finds, however, that the facts in this case rise to the level of the “special circumstances” necessary for a waiver of the Commission’s rules.
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DA 10-888
Order: Word | Acrobat |
| 5/20/10 |
Expanets of North America, Englewood, CA: In this order, WCB grants a request for review of a USAC decision that rescinded E-rate funds committed to the Rock Point Community School because the service was not installed by the September 30 annual deadline. We find that special circumstances exist to justify a waiver of the Commission’s rules because the service provider, Expanets of North America, was at most only a month late in installing its services and such a short delay in service implementation does not warrant the complete rejection of funding. |
DA 10-887
Order: Word | Acrobat |
| 5/20/10 |
Harvest Preparatory School, Yuma, AZ: In this order, WCB grants a request for waiver filed by the Harvest Preparatory School (Harvest) of the deadline for seeking an extension of the services delivery implementation deadline from USAC under the E-rate program. We find that special circumstances exist to justify a waiver of USAC’s deadline for the five funding requests at issue – funding request numbers 1348538, 1349281, 1349304, 1349341, and 1349381 – as part of FCC Form 471 application number 486149 for funding year 2005.
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DA 10-886
Order: Word | Acrobat |
| 5/20/10 |
Children of Peace School, Chicago, IL, et al: In this order, WCB grants 25 appeals of USAC decisions that reduce or deny E-rate funding for various funding years because USAC found that the applicants failed to timely submit FCC Forms 486. As the Bureau found in Alaska Gateway School District and Alcona County Library, we find that complete rejection of these applications is not warranted, given that the applicants missed a USAC procedural deadline and did not violate a Commission rule. Therefore, we remand the underlying applications to USAC for further action consistent with this order.
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DA 10-885
Order: Word | Acrobat |
| 5/13/10 |
FY 2010 E-Rate PIA Procedures Approval Letter: In this letter, WCB approves USAC's program integrity assurance (PIA) procedures for E-rate.
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DA 10-839
Letter: Word | Acrobat |
| 4/14/10 |
Lowest Corresponding Price Public Notice: WCB seeks comment on petition filed by the United States Telecom Association and CTIA – The Wireless Association for declaratory ruling to clarify several issues involving one element of the E-rate program, formally known as the schools and libraries universal service support program. Petitioners seek clarification of the scope and meaning of the Commission’s “lowest corresponding price” rule. The rule mandates that service providers cannot charge schools, school districts, libraries, library consortia, or consortia including any of these entities a price above the lowest corresponding price for supported services, unless the Commission, with respect to interstate services or the state commission with respect to intrastate services, finds that the lowest corresponding price is not compensatory.
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DA 10-627
Public Notice: Word | Acrobat |
| 3/9/10 |
E-rate Community Use Notice of Proposed Rulemaking Public Notice: On February 19, 2010, the FCC released an order and notice of proposed rulemaking (NPRM) enabling schools that receive funding from the E-rate program to allow members of the general public to use the schools’ Internet access during non-operating hours through funding year 2010 and seeking comment on revising its rules to make this change permanent. The FCC set the comment and reply comment deadline for the NPRM as 30 and 45 days, respectively, after publication of the summary of the NPRM in the Federal Register. On March 5, 2010, a summary of the NPRM appeared in the Federal Register. Accordingly, comments will be due on April 5, 2010, and reply comments will be due on April 19, 2010.
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DA 10-396
Public Notice: Word | Acrobat |
| 2/19/10 |
E-rate Community Use Order: In this order, the Commission waives, on its own motion, through funding year 2010 (which ends June 30, 2011), rules that currently discourage public use of resources funded by E-rate. In the notice of proposed rulemaking, the Commission seeks comment on revising its rules to make the change permanent. This change will leverage universal service funding to serve a larger population at no increased cost to the E-rate program. The general public will be able to use the Internet access already present in schools, at the schools’ discretion, for purposes such as job searches and applications, digital literacy programs, and online access to governmental services and resources.
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FCC 10-33
Order: Word | Acrobat |
| 2/16/10 |
Protecting Children in the 21st Century Act Extension Public Notice: The Wireline Competition Bureau extends the deadline to file comments on modifying the E-rate rules to comply with the Protecting Children in the 21st Century Act to February 25, 2010 and extends the deadline for filing reply comments to March 12, 2010.
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DA 10-248
Public Notice: Word | Acrobat |
| 2/2/10 |
State of Louisiana Department of Education, et. al: The Commission addresses requests for waivers of its rules filed by the State of Louisiana Department of Education, the Recovery School District, and the New Orleans Public Schools, under the E-rate program, generally seeking to make changes to their applications for funding years 2004, 2007, 2008, and 2009. The requested changes are not ministerial or clerical errors, pursuant to the Commission’s Bishop Perry Order, and thus require Commission action.
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FCC 10-27
Order: Word | Acrobat |
| 1/20/10 |
Protecting Children in the 21st Century Act Public Notice: On November 5, 2009, the Commission released a notice of proposed rulemaking (NPRM) seeking comment on revising rules regarding the schools and libraries universal service support mechanism, also known as the E-rate program, to comply with the requirements of the Protecting Children in the 21st Century Act. Among other things, section 215 of the Protecting Children in the 21st Century Act, titled Promoting Online Safety in Schools, revised section 254(h)(5)(B) of the Communications Act of 1934, as amended, by adding a new certification requirement for elementary and secondary schools that have computers with Internet access and receive discounts under the E-rate program. The Commission also proposed to revise related Commission rules to reflect existing statutory language more accurately. Interested parties may file comments on or before February 18, 2010, and reply comments on or before March 5, 2010.
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DA 10-102
Public Notice: Word | Acrobat |
| 1/13/10 |
Clarification Regarding Comment Cycle for Further Notice of Proposed Rulemaking On E-rate Eligible Services List: In this PN, WCB clarifies that EDOCS had erroneously set comment dates for the E-rate Eligible Services List FNPRM. The comment cycle will not be set until after the Federal Register publication, which has not yet happened. As soon as a summary of the further notice is published in the Federal Register, WCB will release a public notice with the correct comment deadlines. We will consider all comments that already have been filed in response to the FNPRM and note that commenters may refile or supplement comments already filed.
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DA 10-65
Public Notice: Word | Acrobat |
Release
Date
| Description
| FCC/DA#
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| 12/2/09 |
E-rate Funding Year 2010 Eligible Services List and Seeks Further Comment on Eligible Services: The report and order releases the Funding Year 2010 E-rate Eligible Service List, concluding that interconnected VoIP service is eligible and should continue to receive E-rate program funding. Additionally, the report and order clarifies the E-rate program eligibility of text messaging, video on-demand servers, ethernet, web hosting, wireless LAN controllers, VoIP-related services and requirements, and virtualization software. The report and order also clarifies that telephone broadcast messaging, unbundled warranties, power distribution units, softphones, interactive white boards and e-mail archiving are ineligible for universal service funding. The further notice of proposed rulemaking (FNPRM) tentatively concludes that firewall services, anti-virus/anti-spam software, scheduling services, web hosting, and wireless Internet access applications should not be eligible for E-rate funding. It also seeks comment on the tentative conclusion that eligible products and services should be listed in the ESL as opposed to being individually listed in the rules, and that USAC should be required to submit any proposed changes to the ESL to the Commission by March 30 of each year, instead of June 30, as currently required. The FNPRM also seeks comment on eliminating the requirement that the ESL be released by public notice. Comments are due 30 days after publication in the Federal Register and reply comments are due 45 days after publication in the Federal Register.
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FCC 09-105
Report and Order and Further Notice of Proposed Rulemaking: Word | Acrobat
Eligible Services List: Word | Acrobat |
| 11/5/09 |
Protecting Children in the 21st Century Act Notice of Proposed Rulemaking: This notice of proposed rulemaking proposes revising the Commission’s rules for the E-rate program to comply with the requirements of the Protecting Children in the 21st Century Act. The Protecting Children in the 21st Century Act added a new certification requirement for elementary and secondary schools that have computers with Internet access and receive discounts under the E-rate program. The notice of proposed rulemaking also proposes to revise related Commission rules to reflect existing statutory language more accurately. Comments are due 30 days after publication in the Federal Register and reply comments are due 45 days after publication in the Federal Register.
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FCC 09-96
Notice of Proposed Rulemaking: Word | Acrobat |
| 11/3/09 |
Education, Erate and Broadband Issues Public Notice: Comment Sought on Broadband Needs in Education, Including Changes to E-rate Program to Improve Broadband Deployment. Comments are due November 20, 2009 and reply comments are due December 11, 2009.
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DA 09-2376
Public Notice: Word | Acrobat |
| 10/21/09 |
Lazo Technologies, Inc.: Wireline Competition Bureau (WCB) seeks comment on a petition filed by Lazo Technologies for reconsideration of a WCB E-rate order (DA 09-1797).
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DA 09-2250
Order: Word | Acrobat |
| 10/21/09 |
Integrity Communications, LTD.: Wireline Competition Bureau (WCB) seeks comment on a petition filed by Integrity Communications for reconsideration of a WCB E-rate order (DA 09-1946).
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DA 09-2249
Order: Word | Acrobat |
| 10/20/09 |
Iosco Regional Educational Service Agency, Tawas City, MI: The Division denies appeals of decisions by USAC by an applicant failing to pay the full non-discounted portion of the services received from its service provider and allowing its chosen service provider to act as a consultant during the competitive bidding process, both in violation of Commission rules.
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DA 09-2248
Order: Word | Acrobat |
| 10/20/09 |
Hancock County School District, New Cumberland, WV, et al.: The Division denies 7 appeals of USAC decisions denying E-rate funding on the grounds that the applicants sought discounts on telecommunications from non-eligible telecommunications carriers, in violation of Commission rules.
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DA 09-2247
Order: Word | Acrobat |
| 10/20/09 |
Hemet Unified School District, Hemet, CA: The Division grants an appeal of a USAC decision to deny a request for E-rate funding based on a late-filed request for an extension of the deadline for implementation of services.
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DA 09-2246
Order: Word | Acrobat |
| 10/20/09 |
Exigent Technologies, Parsippany, NJ: The Division denies an appeal of a USAC decision to seek recovery of E-rate funds. Exigent admitted to multiple violations of the rules, including improper service provider involvement in the competitive bidding process and failure to require applicants to pay the non-discounted portion of the price of services and equipment.
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DA 09-2245
Order: Word | Acrobat |
| 10/20/09 |
Eagle Hill School, Hardwick, MA, et al.: The Division denies 3 appeals of USAC decisions denying E-rate funding on the grounds that the applicants requested support for dormitory or residence rooms and for pre-K programs, neither of which was eligible for support.
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DA 09-2244
Order: Word | Acrobat |
| 10/20/09 |
Clark County School District, Las Vegas, NV, et al.: The Division denies 3 appeals of USAC decisions denying E-rate funding for funding years 2004-2008 on the grounds that the applicants requested ineligible services. Specifically, the applicants sought funding for dark fiber service after funding year 2003, when dark fiber was no longer eligible for support.
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DA 09-2243
Order: Word | Acrobat |
| 10/20/09 |
Amy Biehl Charter High School, Albuquerque, NM, and Weld Library District, Greely, CO: The Division denies 2 requests for waiver of certain E-rate competitive bidding rules. The Division denies one request for waiver of the rule requiring the filing of an FCC Form 470 prior to entering into an agreement for services and another request for waiver of all E-rate filing deadlines.
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DA 09-2242
Order: Word | Acrobat |
| 10/20/09 |
Keyport School District, Keyport, NJ: The Division grants an appeal of a USAC decision to deny a request for E-rate funding based on USAC’s assessment that the applicant violated the Commission’s competitive bidding rules.
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DA 09-2241
Order: Word | Acrobat |
| 10/20/09 |
Hazelwood School District, Florissant, MO: The Division grants an appeal of a USAC decision to modify a request for E-rate funding based on USAC’s assessment that the services requested did not qualify as eligible services.
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DA 09-2240
Order: Word | Acrobat |
| 8/28/09 |
Integrity Communications, Ltd. Corpus Christi, TX: In this order, the Bureau denies the request for review of Integrity Communications, Ltd. (Integrity), finding that USAC acted consistent with its policies in requiring Integrity to file a compliance plan and suspending funding.
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DA 09-1946
Order: Word | Acrobat |
| 8/17/09 |
Howe Independent School District 67, Howe, Oklahoma: Telecommunications Access Policy Division denies an appeal of a USAC decision that rescinded E-rate funding already committed to the Howe Independent School District 67 (Howe ISD) for discounted services for funding year 2004. The order finds that Howe ISD requested ineligible services and directs USAC to continue its commitment adjustment recovery actions regarding this matter.
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DA 09-1822
Order: Word | Acrobat |
| 8/12/09 |
Lazo Technologies, Inc., et al.: The Wireline Competition Bureau denies a request for review filed by Lazo Technologies, Inc., Hill Professional Services, and Advanced Technology Solutions South (collectively, petitioners) of a decision by USAC denying payment for work performed by the petitioners for the Dallas Independent School District under the E-rate program after concluding that the underlying contract for E-rate services violated the Commission’s competitive bidding requirements and program rules. The Bureau affirms USAC’s decision and finds that USAC properly denied the petitioners’ request for payments.
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DA 09-1797
Order: Word | Acrobat |
| 7/31/09 |
Carryover of Unused Federal Universal Funds For Funding Year 2009: In this order, the Bureau announces that $900 million in prior unused E-rate funds will be carried forward to increase disbursements to schools and libraries in Funding Year 2009.
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DA 09-1734
Order: Word | Acrobat |
| 7/21/09 |
Minford Local Schools, Minford, OH: In this order, we grant the request for waiver of Minford Local Schools (Minford) of the FCC Form 471 application filing window deadline for funding year 2008 under the schools and libraries universal service support mechanism, also known as the E-rate program.
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DA 09-1567
Order: Word | Acrobat |
| 6/2/09 |
WCB Seeks Comment on Proposed Funding Year 2010 E-rate Eligible Services
List. |
DA 09-1233
Public Notice: Word |Acrobat |
| 5/12/09 |
Judy Green: The Commission debar Judy Green from all activities associated with the schools and libraries universal service support mechanism. |
FCC 09-37
Notice of Debarment: Word | Acrobat |
| 4/14/09 |
Albert Lea Area Schools, Albert Lea, Minnesota, et al.: The Telecommunications Access Policy Division grants 39 appeals and denies 31 appeals of decisions by the Universal Service Administrative Company denying requests for funding under the schools and libraries universal service mechanism for funding years 1999 through 2008 due to the applicant's failure to comply with the Commission's 28-day competitive bidding requirement. |
DA 09-825
Order: Word | Acrobat |
| 4/2/09 |
Schools and Libraries, Letter Approving Funding Year 2009 PIA Procedures: In this letter, the Wireline Competition Bureau (Bureau) notifies the Universal Service Administrative Company (USAC) that the Bureau has approved the Schools and Libraries Funding Year 2009 Program Integrity Assurance FCC Form 471 Review procedures. |
DA 09-762
Letter: Word | Acrobat |
| 1/16/09 |
Schools and Libraries
Program, "Table C" recovery issues: Responded to the outstanding
policy issues regarding recovery of funds in the schools and libraries
universal service program, also known as the E-rate program, on which
USAC has sought formal guidance from the Commission. |
DA 09-86
Letter: Word | Acrobat |
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