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

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

The United States Senate has passed a joint resolution to overturn "Addressing the Homework Gap Through the E-Rate Program," a July 2024 expansion to the FCC's E-Rate program that allowed schools and ...

As K-12 schools face more frequent cyber attacks, federal policymakers are weighing whether one of the nation’s largest education technology funding programs should evolve to meet modern-day threats.

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is weighing proposals to end funding for Wi-Fi on school buses and library hot spots, two pandemic-era programs designed to extend Internet access to ...

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

The Federal Communications Commission yesterday voted to end funding for two programs designed to help schoolchildren and library patrons access the Internet. FCC Chairman Brendan Carr claims that ...

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