June 26, 2025
2025 In-Person E-Rate Training
E-Rate experts will provide training, discuss program updates, and answer questions from new and experienced participants. Registration for these two in-person training events on Thursday, June 26, 2025, at 3:00 pm ET (this time has been adjusted to better serve program participants on both the East and West coasts). For more information on these events and to register, visit the In-Person E-Rate Training Events webpage.
E-Rate Training – Denver: September 9, 2025, at the Lowry Conference Center located in the Community College of Aurora – Lowry Campus, 1061 Akron Way, Denver, Colorado.
E-Rate In-Person Training – Washington, DC: September 16, 2025, at the Federal Communication Commission headquarters, 45 L Street, N.E., Washington, D.C. There will be an option to attend virtually.
June 19, 2025
Service Providers: File any SPACs for Prior Years
If you haven’t already filed your FCC Form 473 (SPAC) for FY2024 and earlier, the deadline to submit these forms is June 30, 2025. USAC will send a reminder to service providers on July 1 if they have not submitted a SPAC for any funding year, Funding Request Numbers they are associated with. Service providers will have two weeks after the reminder to file their missing SPACs, after which USAC begins the referral process to the FCC Enforcement Bureau. To learn more about service provider filing requirements, see last month’s news brief.
June 19, 2025
Category Two Funding Floors and Multipliers for Next Funding Cycle
FCC Wireline Competition Bureau issued a public notice on June 4 (DA 25-471) announcing the Category Two (C2) multipliers and funding floors for the upcoming five-year budget cycle that starts in Funding Year (FY) 2026 and runs through FY2030. For the FY2026- 2030 cycle, the C2 budget funding floor is adjusted from $25,000 to $30,175. For Tribal libraries, the funding floor is adjusted from $55,000 to $66,385.12. The school and school district C2 budget multiplier is adjusted from $167 per student to $201.57 per student, and the library and library system C2 budget multiplier is adjusted from $4.50 per square foot to $5.43 per square foot. Applicants will be required to validate their student counts or library square footage in the first year they apply for C2 support during the FY2026 – 2030 cycle.
May 23, 2025
International Society for Technology in Education’s ISTELive Conference (Texas)
Visit USAC at the International Society for Technology in Education’s ISTELive Conference (Texas), June 29–July 2, 2025. Event link.
