Tennessee School Districts Seek Pai Help on E-Rate Waiver Needed for 2012 Funding Appeal
A group of Tennessee school districts asked FCC Chairman Ajit Pai for help securing a waiver to join the Tennessee E-rate Consortium for purposes of an appeal seeking subsidy support for internet services. The Universal Service Administrative Co. executives initially…
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told the 43 school districts they could join another existing, funded consortium, but later said they couldn't and funding was denied, said a representative of the group in a letter posted Thursday in docket 02-6. "No rules were broken" and "the districts relied, to their detriment, upon" the initial USAC advice, he wrote, saying the reversal meant "yet another consortium had to be formed." The representative asked Pai to help resolve the matter five years after the appeal was filed, and noted the chair was approached about the issue in May when meeting in Columbia, Tennessee, with House Communications Subcommittee Chair Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn.