Ed Tech Funding Update From CoSN 2010
As my colleague Emily Embury noted in her blog entry on ed tech policies, it’s an interesting time in education. With Race to the Top and Investing in Innovation (i3) funding included in the 2009...
View Article4 Places To Find Tech Funding Right Now (THE Journal)
Educational funding is a hot topic this year as school districts nationwide scramble to fill budget gaps.
View ArticleTrends | E-rate Applicant Demand Exceeds $5 Billion (EdTech Digest)
Looking for a discount on certain communications services for your school? You’re not alone.
View ArticleFunds For Learning Debuts New E-rate Manager Packages (THE Journal)
E-rate Manager customers will now have the option of selecting between three levels of service and features that best serve their E-rate needs.
View ArticleTrends | E-Rate Survey Results Are In (EdTech Digest)
Results from a national survey of e-rate applicants indicate a continued reliance on e-rate funding, particularly for broadband connectivity.
View ArticleParchment Raises $23.5M in Venture Round (Phoenix Business Journal)
Parchment Inc. has secured $23.5 million in venture funding after the company had closed a smaller round earlier this year.
View ArticlePositioning Your Product in a Funding Decline
As year-end approaches there’s a looming threat of across-the-board cuts to federal programs, including education, according to Jennifer House and Paula Love of RedRock Reports. House and Love led a...
View ArticleHow Applicants Would Change the E-Rate, if They Could (eSchool News)
In what could be described as a testament to the success of the eRate program, applicants requested the largest amount in the past decade for Funding Year 2012: more than $5.1 billion.
View ArticleSmall-Ticket Expenditures Shift Purchasing Cycles to Year-Round
This is the third post in a six-part series. A by-product of the now-famous “apps budget” discussion that occurred during one of our ISTE 2012 focus groups was this question: How does this kind of...
View ArticleReport Shows Growth in PreK-12 Education Software Market (Education News)
The software industry serving the preK-12 market has grown by more than 3% over the course of 2011 to about $7.7 billion, according to a report put together by the Consulting Services for Education on...
View ArticleDistricts Look to E-Rate Program to Help With Common Core Tech Costs...
Squeezed for time and short of money, school districts are turning to a familiar source, the federal E-rate program , to help them cover the potentially high costs of upgrading technology to meet the...
View ArticleSequester: What it Means for Education
It’s safe to say that you’re living under a rock if you haven’t heard the term “sequestration” in recent months. Especially if you live in the world of education, as we do here at C. Blohm &...
View ArticleE-Rate Needs Overhaul for Digital Era, Experts Argue (Education Week)
As school districts strive to put more technology into schools to support 1-to-1 computing initiatives and prepare for the common-core online assessments, the federal E-rate program is in danger of...
View ArticleObama Pushes Faster Internet, More Tech Funding for Schools (Education Week)
President Barack Obama is calling for an ambitious overhaul of the federal E-rate program, a step that many education and technology advocates have been urging for years to improve what they see as...
View ArticleBringing Up the Bandwidth (EdTech Digest)
President Obama has called for high speed digital connections to our schools and libraries, “ensuring that 99 percent of American students can benefit” from advances in teaching and learning in the...
View ArticleHow to Improve the e-Rate (eSchool News)
The United States is credited with bringing forth some of the greatest technologies of our time—technologies that are being used today to raise the standard of education for people of all ages, in all...
View ArticleE-rate Modernization Order (EdNET Insight)
The International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) has launched a campaign aimed at encouraging the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to increase funding for the E-rate. ISTE is urging...
View ArticleE-rate Survey: Increased Funding Critical for Success (Tech & Learning)
Funds For Learning has released the results of its 2014 E-rate Survey at the ISTE 2014 Conference and Expo in Atlanta. Highlights of the results include: 58 percent of respondents expect their budget...
View ArticleIncreased Funding Needed for E-rate Program (K-12 Tech Decisions)
Many K-12 districts rely on E-rate funding to obtain affordable telecommunications, broadband Internet access and internal network connections. E-rate is a program under the direction of the FCC that...
View ArticleLearn how Funds For Learning can help your school manage your technology...
On Monday June 30, TeacherCast welcomed Funds for Learning onto TeacherCast LIVE at ISTE2014 to discuss how they are helping school districts worldwide manage their E-Rates and provide technology for...
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