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Year 10 Priority 2 Funding Threshold Set at 81%
Message Posted April 18, 2008

~ Affected PA applicants listed below ~

In December 2007, the SLD initially announced that they did not have sufficient funding to cover Year 10 (FY 2007) priority 2 funding requests down to the 80% discount level, and they were unsure whether there would be enough funds to cover 81-82% requests.  The FCC rescinded this announcement at the request of the State E-rate Coordinators' Alliance because there was an outside possibility that funding would be available as other funding requests were denied and rollover funding became available from previous years. 

 
After several months of deliberations, the FCC has decided that funding will be available to cover requests down to the 81% level, but no funding would be available at the 80% level (the PA applicants that are affected by the 81% cut-off are listed below).  This is striking considering the additional $650 million in uncollected funds from previous years that was rolled over into FY 2007, thus making the 2007 funding cap almost $2.9 million.  This is also an unfortunate sign that it may not be possible to fund P2 requests at the 80% level for FY 2008 and beyond unless the FCC changes its rules pertaining to P2 funding or provides a rollover amount sizably larger than $650 million. 

For those of you who keep track, below is a history of how far priority 2 funding has reached for each funding year:

1998 - 70
1999 - all funded
2000 - 82
2001 - 86
2002 - 81
2003 - 70 (significant rollover funds)
2004 - 81
2005 - 80
2006 - 86
2007 - 81

Pennsylvania applicants with 2007 priority 2 requests pending at the 80% level:

Auberle Education Center
Blacklick Valley School Dist
Champion Christian School
Chester-Upland School District
Claysburg Elementary School
Clearfield Co Career & Technology Center
Cornell School District
Erie City School District
Galeton Area School District
Greater Johnstown AVTS
Green Tree School
Holy Family School
Holy Infancy School
Indiana County Technology Center
Lancaster School District
Lebanon School District
Lincoln Intermediate Unit 12
Mahanoy Area Elementary
Mahanoy Area Middle School
Midland Borough School Dist
Mon Valley Area Voc-Tech Sch
Monessen City School District
Philadelphia School District
Pittsburgh School District
Propel Charter Schools
Reading-Muhlenberg Area Vo-Tech School
Riverview School District
Southeastern Greene S D
Valley Grove School District

If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact me at jtschell@comcast.net.

-- Julie

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