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

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

The U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday signaled it is unlikely to upend the federal E-rate program for school internet connections, even as some conservative justices showed sympathy for the legal ...

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

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 ...

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

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 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 ...