E-rate Order Is 5-0 With Possible Concurrences; ALA Hopeful of Release This Week
An item to modernize Category 2 spending in E-rate was deleted from the FCC's circulation list, updated Friday. It was approved 5-0 and Democratic concurrences are possible, an agency official said Monday. The item, which went on circulation last month,…
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is expected to make permanent funding for broadband-related services inside libraries and schools (see 1910290016). "We do hope that it's soon because libraries are planning now" for next year's budgets, and they need the certainty of a rule, said Marijke Visser, American Library Association senior policy advocate, about possible forthcoming release. Visser said in an interview Monday that ALA seeks an increase to libraries' per-square-foot funding levels.