Download or read book Problems with the E rate Program written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Energy and Commerce. Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 720 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Problems with the E rate Program written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Energy and Commerce. Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Problems with the e rate program written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Energy and Commerce. Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Universal Service E rate Program written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Problems with the E rate Program written by United States House of Representatives and published by . This book was released on 2019-11-29 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Problems with the e-rate program: GAO review of FCC management and oversight: hearing before the Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations of the Committee on Energy and Commerce, House of Representatives, One Hundred Ninth Congress, first session, March 16, 2005.
Download or read book Problems With The E Rate Program Waste Fraud and Abuse Concerns In The Wiring of Our Nation s Schools To The Internet Part 2 Serial No 108 3 July 22 2004 108 2 Hearing written by and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Telecommunications written by Mark L. Goldstein and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 2009-09 with total page 83 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The FCC¿s Schools and Libraries Universal Service Support Mechanism -- also known as the E-rate program -- is a significant source of fed. funding for info. tech. for schools and libraries, providing $2 billion a year. This report assessed issues related to the E-rate program's long-term goals, including: (1) key trends in the demand for and use of E-rate funding and the implications of these trends; (2) the rate of program participation, participants' views on requirements, and FCC's actions to facilitate participation; and (3) FCC's performance goals and measures for the program and how they compare to key characteristics of successful goals and measures. To perform this work, the auditor surveyed a sample of participating schools and libraries. Illus.
Download or read book Problems with the E rate Program written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Energy and Commerce. Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 763 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Problems with The E Rate Program Waste Fraud and Abuse Concerns in The Wiring of Our Nation s Schools to The Internet Part 3 Serial No 108 124 September 22 2004 108 2 Hearing written by and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Problems with the E Rate Program written by Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. House Committee on Energy and Commerce and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The purpose of this hearing was to examine the Federal Communications Commission's management and oversight of the E-Rate program. This subcommittee has done much to expose for Congress a range of problems in the E-Rate program management--problems that raise questions about the program's effectiveness and whether the Nation's taxpayers can be assured their tax dollar has been used efficiently. During the past session of Congress, this subcommittee conducted an extensive investigation of the E-Rate program. Through this work, which was highlighted in three informative hearings last summer and fall, the Subcommittee identified a number of expensive failures in the program. The Subcommittee spotlight exposed tens of millions of dollars in wasted E-Rate spending. Ceiling-high pallets of useless wireless equipment, sitting shrink-wrapped in a warehouse was seen, and it was learned that the beneficiaries of that equipment, Puerto Rican schoolchildren, had been deprived of any real benefit of E-Rate, despite the program sending more than $100 million to Puerto Rico's schools. Wasted opportunities were discovered in Texas where, for instance, the El Paso Independent School District was convinced by an E-Rate vendor--IBM in that situation--that it could use $60 million in E-Rate funds for a single school year for about 50 schools. Twenty- four million dollars of this was spent on an operation meant just to maintain the network. That district soon found itself over its head in technology as it watched millions of dollars of planning and preparation, including the entire maintenance operation, simply disappear when funds dried up after authorities discovered it had participated in an anti-competitive process. The district struggles to this day to get its E-Rate program back in order. In December 2003, as part of its E-Rate investigation, the committee requested the GAO, the investigative arm of Congress, to look at FCC management and oversight of the program. GAO's findings and recommendations formed the centerpiece of this hearing. This hearing heard from one panel of witnesses: Mark Goldstein, Director of Physical Infrastructure Issues for GAO; Jeffrey Carlisle, who is Chief of the FCC's Wireline Competition Bureau, which oversees the E-Rate program. Tom Bennett, FCC's Assistant Inspector General for Universal Service Fund Oversight, spoke to the IG's perspective on program weaknesses and also to efforts to identity waste, fraud, and abuse in the program. Additional material was also presented for the record.
Download or read book E Rate Program on Hold written by George H. Pike and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 3 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Federal E-rate program was established in 1996 as part of a broad effort to bring high-speed Internet access to schools and libraries around the country, particularly in rural areas. Under the program, schools and libraries can receive grants which cover up to 90% of their Internet service and telecommunications costs. Funding for the program comes from “Universal Service Fees” assessed on telecommunications services. The program is regulated by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), but is administered by the Universal Service Administrative Company (USAC), a federally chartered, non-profit corporation.The $2.5 billion program is considered a success. USAC processes over 35,000 applications per year for new and continuing E-rate support. Statistics from 2002 (the most recent year available) show that 99% of public schools and 92% of public school classrooms have Internet access, with much of that access being through broadband connections funded in part by the E-rate program. Until recently, the only significant glitch in the program was the Children's Internet Protection Act (see, Living in a Post-CIPA World, Information Today, September 2003), which added a requirement that all public school and library E-rate recipients must install and use filtering software on their Internet accessible computers.Recently, however, a more significant series of glitches has ground the program to a halt. In August, 2004, the FCC ordered a number of changes in the accounting, disbursement and audit practices of both the FCC and the USAC. Complications ensued.
Download or read book Problems with the E rate Program written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Energy and Commerce. Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
