PDE Posts Wave 7 E-rate Funding Commitment Recipients
Message Posted February 2, 1999
The Schools and Libraries Division just released a list of the Wave 7 E-rate Funding Commitment Letter Recipients. More than 1,500 funding
commitment decisions letters totaling $140 million in E-rate funds are included nationwide in this wave. In Pennsylvania, 63 letters were mailed,
totaling $3,473,990.02 in funding commitments. To receive a more detailed listing of this same information, go to the SLD web site's Funding
Recipient Page for Pennsylvania at http://www.slcfund.org/Reference/1998/FCState.asp?StateCD=PA . Wave 7 should be posted there in a day or two.
If you are a school or library that applied in last year's window and haven't been notified of a funding commitment in the first seven waves,
DON'T BE ALARMED. THIS IS NOT THE LAST WAVE. There will be two to four additional waves before the process is concluded. Approximately two-thirds of E-rate applications have not been responded to yet, and only about 40% of the funding has been committed. The SLD issued a statement which says,
"While we had hoped to make the vast majority of commitments by the end of January, and worked diligently to do so, we are also committed to providing
detailed review of each application for compliance with program rules, as we agreed to do in the course of our audits by both the General Accounting
Office and PricewaterhouseCoopers. We are completing our final review of each application as quickly as we can without sacrificing assurance of
program integrity, and have continued to add staff resources to expedite the overall review process."
As I've stated before, I can see no clear pattern for release of these letters and just because you haven't heard yet does not mean that you are
not getting funded. Also, as you know this is a federal program, and the PA Department of Education does not control or have anything to do with the
processing of applications, release of funds, etc. Therefore if you have not received a funding commitment letter, you should not call the PA
Department of Education to inquire about your application's status. The only notice we have of commitments being made are when we receive a fax
about an hour before you receive the list via e-mail.
Consistent with the SLD's earlier determination, this wave provides funding to cover internal connection requests for applicants who qualify
for a 77% discount or above. This wave reflects some, but no all, of such applications.
In addition, to get funding information into the hands of more applicants sooner, the SLD is mailing letters to schools and libraries
committing E-rate discounts on their telecommunications services and Internet acces requests, even though we may not have yet determined whether
or not funds are sufficient to fund the internal connections component of the application. Some applicants, therefore, may receive more than one
letter in response to their application. So, if your funding commitment letter states, "not yet funded" beside the internal connection funding
request, proceed with completing your Form 486s for the other "funded" components. A future letter will be mailed as a final determination on the
internal connections piece. Basically, it means that you're not yet funded, and you're not yet denied. Your internal connections request is
just in limbo until they can see how much money they have left over.
Congratulations to the following recipients. Don't forget that the next step is to file your Form 486s (supposedly within 5 days... 5-10 days is
probably fine) and begin the process of completing your BEAR Form (Form 472) if you need reimbursed for any funds committed and already spent (Jan.
31 deadline extended for at least another month.)
-- Julie
Entity City Discount
Amount
Abington School Abington 41%
$54,856.79
Andrew Carnegie Free Library Carnegie 40%
$620.00
Beaver Area School District Beaver 40%
$11,480.00
Bedford County Technical Center Everett 70%
$4,822.02
Bellwood Antis School District Bellwood 47%
$10,998.00
Bethlehem Catholic High School Bethlehem 40%
$4,983.60
Bethlehem-Center School District Fredericktown 70%
$10,488.36
Canon-McMillan School District Canonsburg 50%
$1,611.00
Cathedral Preparatory School Erie 40%
$4,872.00
Conneaut School District Linesville 68%
$4,970.80
Country Day School Sacred Heart Bryn Mawr 40%
$4,098.00
County of Cumberland Carlisle 40%
$320.00
Crawford Central School District Meadville 60%
$9,000.00
Fairfield Area School District Fairfield 50%
$12,600.00
Fayette County AVTS Uniontown 80%
$19,205.60
Fox Chapel Area School District Pittsburgh 51%
$67,878.39
German Masontown Public Library Masontown 73%
$3,937.38
Glen Mills School Concordville 90%
$50,784.30
Halifax Area School District Halifax 40%
$1,080.00
Hamburg Area School District Hamburg 40%
$18,360.66
Harrisburg City School District Harrisburg 87%
$2,692,430.12
Holy Child Catholic School Bridgeville 40%
$1,122.00
John W Hallahan High School Philadelphia 50%
$3,275.00
Kane Area School District Kane 60%
$11,775.01
Lancaster Co Career & Tech Center Willow Street 40%
$38,515.20
Lancaster County Library Lancaster 54%
$23,458.68
Lebanon Community Library Lebanon 41%
$991.59
Locust Grove Mennonite School Smoketown 40%
$3,240.00
Methacton School District Norristown 40%
$4,790.80
Mifflin County School District Lewistown 65%
$19,422.00
Northwestern Lehigh School District New Tripoli 40%
$13,230.07
Oley Valley School District Oley 40%
$13,494.00
Our Lady of Charity School Brookhaven 50%
$975.00
Pottstown School District Pottstown 63%
$62,370.00
Ridgway Area School District Ridgway 66%
$18,628.50
Ridley Park Public Library Ridley Park 40%
$504.00
Ridley School District Folsom 47%
$40,890.00
Rochester Area School District Rochester 57-67%
$46,140.00
Sacred Heart School Bethlehem 40%
$473.28
Somerset County AVTS School Somerset 80%
$80,186.95
Somerset County Library Somerset 50%
$731.01
Southern Lehigh Public Library Coopersburg 40%
$648.00
Springboro Public Library Springboro 68%
$652.80
St. Andrew School Johnstown 60%
$6,396.67
St. Anthony School Programs Pittsburgh 20%
$1,037.88
St. Ignatius School Yardley 40%
$1,236.00
St. Jude School Mountain Top 40%
$6,108.70
St. Katherine of Siena School Philadelphia 50%
$4,057.68
St. Michael The Archangel School Limeport 40%
$3,114.00
St. Rose of Lima School York 40%
$769.39
St. Theresa School Hellertown 40%
$1,834.78
St. Anne School Lancaster 40%
$2,089.10
State College Area School District State College 40%
$2,217.60
Stella Maris School Philadelphia 60%
$2,475.72
Sullivan County School District Dushore 63-65%
$18,255.70
The Miquon School Conshohocken 40%
$4,230.00
The Phelps School Malvern 20%
$3,453.40
Valley School of Ligonier Ligonier 20%
$2,634.00
West Allegheny School District Imperial 40%
$39,168.49
Sum for State $3,473,990.02
Julie L. Tritt
Executive Policy Specialist
Office of Educational Technology
Pennsylvania Department of Education
333 Market Street, 10th Floor
Harrisburg, PA 17126
Tel: (717) 705-4486
Fax: (717) 787-7222
00jtritt@psupen.psu.edu
www.L2L.org
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