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 ...

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, ...

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 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 ...

After the FCC pulled back coverage for school bus Wi-Fi and hotspots, K-12 leaders are scrambling to connect students without ...

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 ...