Author: Lorrie Germann

Hello E-Rate Community, USAC has just announced that the FY 2025 Form 471 Application Window will open on Wednesday, January 15, 2025, at noon E.T. and will close on Wednesday, March 26, 2025, at 11:59 p.m. E.T. In addition, the EPC [...]

Good morning E-Rate Community, I apologize up front for the lengthy list of items in this update, but this is proving to be a very busy E-Rate filing season, with lots of information to share! So, here we go: Supreme Court Takes [...]

Here’s a reminder of a couple of upcoming E-Rate deadlines: October 28, 2024 - FY2023 BEAR (Form 472) deadline for recurring services (received July 1, 2023 – June 30, 2024) For a step-by-step guide on filing the BEAR form, go to https://www.ohio-k12.help/e-rate-support/resource-library/. [...]

This is another reminder to register for my E-Rate training sessions to prepare for the 2025-26 funding year (FY2025). With the changes/additions to E-Rate for the upcoming year and in light of FY2025 being year five of the current 5-year [...]

This is a reminder that you can now register for my E-Rate training sessions to prepare for the 2025-26 funding year (FY2025). With the changes/additions to E-Rate for the upcoming year and in light of FY2025 being year five of [...]

Hello E-Rate Community, This is a reminder that the Form 484 Part 1 application filing window for the $200 million Cybersecurity Pilot Program opened this morning. It will close on Friday, November 1, 2024 at 11:59 p.m. After the filing window [...]

Hello E-Rate Community, The FCC has announced that the Form 484 Part 1 application filing window for the $200 million Cybersecurity Pilot Program will open on Tuesday, September 17, 2024 at 8:00 a.m. and will close on Friday, November 1, 2024 [...]

Good morning E-Rate Community, And I hope the new school year is off to a great start. I want to update you on several E-Rate items. First, the URL for my E-Rate website has changed. It is now https://www.ohio-k12.help/e-rate-support/. Here are a few upcoming [...]

Hello E-Rate Community, I want to make you aware of changes in this year's E-Rate Form 471 application review procedures. We don't have all of the information but will share with you what we do know as of this point. Many of [...]

I want to share an update regarding the new E-Rate Form 471 application review procedures (a.k.a. PIA reviews).

One of the new requirements is that URLs must be provided to indicate where data is coming from at the state level, such [...]