The federal Department of Education and the federal Institute of Museum and Library Services will develop guidelines for the use of ESEA or LSTA funds respectively. By law the FCC must release its rules by April 20. The assumption is that they will be released about April 10. As the FCC develops the CIPA rules, there are a number of issues it must consider. On several recent conference calls, many state education and library agency representatives, including DPI staff, stated to the SLD and the FCC staff the following major issues or concerns.
Filters are imperfect at best.
Compliance should be a checkbox on one of the E-rate forms, preferably the 486. No additional language related to this legislation shall be added to the technology plan criteria. More updates will be provided by the DPI as they become available. You will notice there are still several districts that have not entered their data. If you need the data from these districts, contact them directly.