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| E-rate News for the Week of October 4, 1999 | |||||||
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The following is a summary of the E-rate news for the week of October 8, 1999,
prepared by E-Rate Central. Official SLD news appears in the "What’s
New!" section of the
SLD’s web site . Additional information and interpretations appear
elsewhere at this web site.
Wave 14 of Funding Commitment Decisions ("FCD") Letters for program year two ("PY2") is on schedule to be mailed this Friday. The wave will be comprised of 2,292 letters for $141 million. New York’s share of Wave 14 will be 72 letters for $12.6 million. The SLD hopes to have its new Form 470 and Form 471 for PY3 approved by next week. Concurrently, the SLD will begin accepting the new Form 470 applications electronically or by mail. Applicants with long procurement cycles had previously been advised that they could file the old version of Form 470, but the SLD has now indicated that such filings should not be used after October 9. Old Form 470s, and associated certifications, received after October 9 may not be properly posted to the SLD web site. Internet filtering legislation in conference Senate and House conferees appear to be within a week or two of completing work on a juvenile justice bill that includes a provision that could link E-rate funding with a requirement to utilize Internet filtering software. Section 1402 of the House’s Juvenile Justice Reform Act of 1999 (H.R. 1501) states: "No universal service [may be provided] for schools and libraries that fail to implement a filtering or blocking technology for computers with Internet access." The section would require a school to certify to the Federal Communications Commission that it has selected a technology to filter or block pornographic material. New dates for NYS E-rate workshops The schedule of half-day NYS E-rate workshops, sponsored by the New York State Education Department and announced in last week’s news, has been changed and expanded to resolve conflicts with two conferences for NYS schools and libraries. The revised schedule is listed below. Note that it includes a second date for applicants in New York City. A third NYC workshop, specifically for vendors, is also included. Registration information and directions will be posted on the E-Rate Central web site next week. School and library workshops: |
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| Disclaimer: This newsletter may contain unofficial information on prospective E-rate developments and/or may reflect our own interpretations of E-rate practices and regulations. Such information is provided for planning and guidance purposes only. It is not meant, in any way, to supplant official announcements and instructions provided by either the SLD or the FCC. |
