Funds For Learning Announces Findings from National E-rate Survey

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Funds For Learning, an E-rate funding compliance services firm, announces the results of the Second Annual National E-rate Survey. Findings include:

1) Opinions of E-rate program management have improved dramatically over the last year.

2) The majority of survey respondents, 71 percent, believe that their organization has more classrooms connected to the Internet than would be the case if the E-rate program did not exist.

3) 57 percent of participating organizations have just one person managing the E-rate process.

4) Fifteen percent of survey respondents indicate that they have undergone an audit within the last two years. Of these audited applicants, 72.5 percent had no findings as a result of their audit. For the remaining group, failure to properly retain E-rate related documentation was the most common audit finding. Most applicants feel that the amount of effort required to respond to an audit is disproportionate to the E-rate funding received, but agree that auditors conduct themselves professionally and communicate well with applicants.


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