Author: Lorrie Germann

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 [...]

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. Last week, [...]

Hello E-Rate Community, If you were not able to file your Form 471 application by the March 27th, 2024, deadline, please know you still have options. In previous years, the FCC has been very lenient if the application is filed within [...]

Good Morning E-Rate Community,Per USAC’s News Brief released this past Friday, The FCC announced an inflation factor of 2.2% for FY2019.Based on the new factor, the rounded calculations for FY2019 Category Two budgets are: Schools = Number of students * $159.67 Libraries with [...]