In a major victory for public institutions and the tech companies that support them, the U.S. Supreme Court just preserved the federal funding lifeline that underpins internet access and ...

Thirty years ago, Congress passed the Telecommunications Act of 1996 based on a straightforward principle: The benefits of modern communications networks should reach every community, not just the ...

Join eSchool News for the 12 Days of Edtech with 2024’s most-read and most-loved stories. On the 1st Day of Edtech, our story focuses on the E-rate program. Despite making significant technological ...

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 ...

School and library broadband technology has been through a lot in recent years, and so has the federal E-rate program that funds it. E-rate helped build broadband extensions to serve remote learners, ...

The U.S. Supreme Court recently heard argument on an important case that has the potential to upend a significant source of technology funding for school systems throughout the country. The FCC v.

The federal E-rate program that funds internet connections in education is subject to a major anti-fraud statute, potentially bolstering schools that have been allegedly overcharged by ...

Annie is a policy analyst for the Center for Technology and the Human Person at The Heritage Foundation. Under the Biden Administration, the Federal Communications Commission expanded the Education ...

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 Bureau of Investigation has raided yeshivas and technology vendors in ultra-Orthodox corners of Brooklyn and Rockland County, serving search warrants as part of a sweeping fraud ...

Thirty years ago, Congress passed the Telecommunications Act of 1996 based on a straightforward principle: The benefits of modern communications networks should reach every community, not just the ...