eSchool News 

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has proposed new e-Rate rules designed to simplify the program and bring discounts on networking services to more schools and libraries. Among other actions, the FCC wants to index the e-Rate to inflation. That would result in the first increase in funding to the $2.25 billion-a-year program since it began more than a decade ago.

But executives attending the Software and Information Industry Association’s annual Education Technology Industry Summit in San Francisco expressed disappointment in the FCC’s proposal, saying it doesn’t go far enough in meeting schools’ needs.

Full story