Massachusetts Supports E-rate for Remote Learning in Pandemic

Massachusetts supported Colorado’s request to waive a restriction on using E-rate funding “off-campus.” Waiving the rule “would help mitigate the harms to our education system that the pandemic has caused” by allowing schools and libraries to extend broadband to unserved students who must learn remotely, the Massachusetts Department of Telecommunications and Cable wrote Thursday in docket 13-184. The FCC also should waive parts of the program’s application procedures and competitive bidding requirements, the MDTC said.