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Heritage Report Raises Concerns About E-Rate Spending

Analyst Annie Chestnut Tutor sees various entities extracting hundreds of millions of dollars from the E-Rate Program.

Clara Easterday

Clara Easterday

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Heritage Report Raises Concerns About E-Rate Spending
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WASHINGTON, March 13, 2025 - A new report out this week suggests that a major internet subsidy program, supervised by the Federal Communications Commission, has been wasting taxpayer dollars.

The Heritage Foundation issued a report Monday critical of the FCC’s oversight of the Education Rate or E-Rate program, which spent $2.4 billion in 2023 to keep schools and libraries connected to the Internet. 

Under the Biden Administration, the FCC expanded E-Rate to provide free Wi-Fi on school buses and hotspot devices for schools and libraries to loan to students. 

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