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Sunday, January 30, 2000
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
The E-rate is a 20 percent to 90 percent discount for Internet connections, internal connections and other telecommunications services for schools and libraries. It was written into the 1996 Telecommunications Act to make sure that poor and rural children don't suffer technological discrimination because of the high cost of Internet service. All public schools, all private schools with endowments under $50 million, all public libraries and many private libraries accessible to the public qualify to apply for discounts.
