— USAC has not yet announced the official dates, but we now expect it to open on or after January 15, 2019 and close on or about March 25.\u00a0 Hopefully the window dates will be announced soon.<\/p>\n
What You Should Be Doing Now<\/strong><\/p>\n FCC Category 2 Report Expected Soon<\/strong><\/p>\n As you know, Category 2 budgets are still available for FY 2019, but the FCC has not yet decided their fate for FY 2020 and beyond.\u00a0 A report is expected to be released before the Form 471 window opens that should give us a roadmap of where the Category 2 funding mechanism is headed.<\/p>\n Calculating Remaining Category 2 Budgets<\/strong><\/p>\n To determine how much Category 2 funding remains for your school, use this formula:\u00a0 <\/strong>$156.23\/student\/school minus pre-discount amounts that were approved for each school since FY 2015<\/strong>.\u00a0 Where can you find the C2 amounts that have already been used for each school?\u00a0 Use this USAC tool:\u00a0 https:\/\/sltools.universalservice.org\/portal-external\/budgetLookup\/<\/a> and enter the E-rate entity numbers for each school in the text box (screenshot shown below).\u00a0\u00a0 Note:\u00a0 The \u201cC2 Budgets\u201d figure use your old FY 2018 approved enrollments (not any updates you\u2019ve made during the FY 2019 Admin Window), and therefore the \u201cRemaining Balance\u201d figure is not accurate.\u00a0 So do your own calculations using updated enrollments\/building to determine accurate remaining C2 budgets for each building.<\/p>\n If you have any questions, please contact me at jtschell@comcast.net<\/a>.<\/p>\n Happy Holidays!<\/p>\n — Julie<\/p>\n Julie Tritt Schell\n
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\nPA E-rate Coordinator
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\nwww.e-ratepa.org<\/a><\/p>\n\n