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2026 SHLB in the News
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April, 23, 2026 School, library groups urge FCC not to create proposed E-Rate bidding portal |
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April, 22, 2026 SHLB Objects to Parts of Proposed E-rate Bidding Portal March, 23, 2026 USF Supporters Ask 5th Circuit to Reject Latest Consumers’ Research Challenge |
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November, 2025
October, 2025
- Anchor Institutions Face Funding Crisis as Digital Divide Widens, Panel Says
- Spectrum Bill Raises Questions on Equity, Wi-Fi, and Rural Reach
- Experts Advocate for Action on Universal Service Fund Reform
- Bipartisan Senate Aides Expect to Unveil USF Modernization Framework by 2026
- Libraries Warn Federal Cuts Could Undo Digital Inclusion Gains
- Community 'Anchors' Set Sights On More Connectivity Funds
September, 2025
- Carr Looking to Scrap FCC Funding for Off-campus Wi-Fi
- Carr Circulates Proposals to Zero Out Wi-Fi Programs
- FCC to Vote on Rolling Back E-Rate at September Meeting
- FCC plans to kill new federal hotspot lending rule “one more way to limit access to information”
- FCC plans end school bus internet and library hotspot lending
- SHLB, ALA, EdLiNC, Homework Gap Coalition Urge FCC: Don’t Cut School Bus Wi-Fi & Hotspot Lending
- Groups Ask FCC Not to Delete Wi-Fi Programs
- E-Rate Hotspots Order's Stakeholders See CRA Stall on Hill Ahead of Likely FCC Repeal
July, 2025
- E-rate ruling continues internet subsidy at Homer library
- FCC: Supreme Court Decision Puts Brakes on School Bus Wi-Fi Suit
- Supreme Court Upholds Constitutionality of the Universal Service Fund
May, 2025
April, 2025
- Lawyers Defending FCC Expect Win at SCOTUS on USF Challenge
- Supreme Court Hears Oral Argument In Nondelegation Case Implicating The Powers of Administrative Agencies
- In ‘Delete’ Docket, Advocates Want Improvements to Lifeline, E-Rate and Local Control
- Telecom groups want out of these FCC rules
March, 2025
- Coalition Lobbies Congress to Save the Universal Service Fund
- Schools Fear Funding Loss as Supreme Court Weighs E-Rate Case
- School, Library Groups Ask Senate to Preserve Rule Allowing E-Rate Funds to be Spent on Wi-Fi Hotspots
- Lawyers Defending FCC Predict Divided SCOTUS on USF Challenge
- Supreme Court case may eliminate monthly phone, internet and cable fee
- Supreme Court Hears Oral Argument In Nondelegation Case Implicating The Powers of Administrative Agencies
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