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A Funds For Learning E-rate expert shares what K–12 procurement officers and IT leaders need to know so they can be prepared to apply for the expanded funds if and when the FCC decides to expand the E-rate eligible services list particularly if the expansion plan of choice means that the amount of E-rate funds to cover modern cybersecurity services is limited, at least for the first few years.
K–12 school systems are trying to fend off an increasing number of cyber threats with limited IT resources, and they need all the help they can get. Allowing schools to use federal E-rate funding for cybersecurity services such as next-generation firewalls, distributed denial of service protection, and intrusion detection and prevention would go a long way toward solving this challenge and K–12 stakeholders should make their voices heard on this critical issue, immediately, says a Funds For Learning executive.
A lab at Georgetown University that focuses on education finance has looked into how school districts have spent Elementary and Secondary School Emergency funds and found labor accounts for most of it, with a small percentage going to tech.