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The available support is a ‘great benefit,’ according to more tha...

The available support is a “great benefit,” according to more than 90% of Universal Service Fund (USF) Schools & Libraries Program participants, USAC said. Only 6% said their school or library gets “some benefit;” 1% said there is “no…

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benefit,” USAC said. The data were amassed by a USAC program launched in Jan. to learn now to improve USF by visiting and talking with recipients. Participants rely on USF for public safety, better communications between faculty and parents, distance learning, readying students for state-mandated tests and acquiring new technologies, USAC said. “Some school officials also have expressed that without USF support, their schools would not be able to meet the federal requirements of the No Child Left Behind Act,” USAC said.