Year 12 (2009-2010), Wave 31 E-rate Funding Committed!
Message Posted December 7, 2009

Congratulations to the following 35 Pennsylvania schools and libraries that will be receiving Year 12, Wave 31 E-rate Funding Commitment Letters, totaling $27,060,607.14. A summary of each commitment is listed below. All Year 12 correspondence will be sent in YELLOW.

A wave will be arriving every week until the Year 12 funding is exhausted. This wave consists of requests for Priority 1 services (telecom and Internet) and Priority 2 (internal connections and basic maintenance). There are many, many more waves coming, and your commitment will be in one of the upcoming waves.

* Please note that the Priority 2 funding has reached 80% beginning with wave 30, and there are indications it may go lower in the coming months. This is unusual because P2 funding typically ends in the 84-86% range. The FCC rolled over nearly $1 billion earlier this year which is likely the reason that funding to lower discount-levels is possible.

The next step for those entities funded in Waves 1-31 will be to file the Form 486 which tells the SLD it's OK to pay invoices, who approved your technology plan, and that you are CIPA compliant. The Online Form 486 for FY 2009 is available at http://www.slforms.universalservice.org/Form486exp/SearchEntity.aspx. And because the funding year has begun, there is no requirement to check 6A on the form which indicated early filing. For tips on filing the 486 and an example of a completed form, see: http://www.e-ratepa.org/Listserve-Archive/2009/05-11-09.htm.

If you have any questions, please contact me at jtschell@comcast.net.

Applicant Amount
Abrams Hebrew Academy $ 2,683.20
Archdiocese Philadelphia Schs $ 90,730.08
Belmont Academy Charter School $ 60,764.92
Bucks County Schools Intermediate Unit 22 $ 95,783.39
Calvary Christian Academy $ 9,840.00
Central Bucks School Dist $ 220,086.50
Cheltenham Twp School District $ 159,471.22
Chichester School District $ 51,590.15
Country Day Sch Sacred Heart $ 5,784.00
Craig Academy $ 18,979.60
Intermediate Unit 11 $ 148,421.32
Intermediate Unit 17 $ 812,043.21
Intermediate Unit 29 $ 287,354.77
Line Mountain School District $ 1,805.71
Manchester Academic Charter School $ 6,172.74
Mariana Bracetti Academy Charter School $ 41,104.80
Milton Area School District $ 3,935.17
Mohawk Area School District $ 7,440.91
New Castle Area School Dist $ 61,706.26
New Foundations Charter School $ 28,272.00
Northwest Area School District $ 53,102.55
Pennsylvania School For Deaf $ 42,547.30
Perkiomen Valley School Dist $ 81,168.00
Plumstead Christian Schools $ 11,961.60
Saucon Valley School District $ 32,139.55
School District of Philadelphia $24,182,642.48
Southern Columbia Ar Sch Dist $ 7,597.74
Spring Ford Area School Dist $ 21,453.12
Springfield Twp School Dist $ 37,526.40
St Jude School $ 478.90
Sts. Peter and Paul School $ 1,781.46
Tamaqua Area School District $ 17,567.18
Woods School $ 144,743.87
Yeshiva Achei Tmimim $ 155,963.52
Yeshivah Achei Tmimsm $ 155,963.52
Year 12, Wave 31 Total $27,060,607.14

-- Julie