Ed-Tech Funding Alert: What You Need to Know About eRate Now

Selling To Schools and Federal Funding for SchoolsThe Universal Access Fund, also known as eRate, has been somewhat of a mystery to companies in the educational technology industry  that sell to K-12 schools. This program, paid for by a tax on telecommunications services, was intended to fund Internet connectivity for K-12 schools. Now that schools are connected, what lies ahead?

With real urgency to leverage every possible funding source, school sales professionals and education marketing staff are again looking at eRate and new provisions that may be on the horizon. What is the future for the eRate program? What are the opportunities for suppliers of educational technologies?

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