WELS: [Welstech] E-Rate Funding

[Benjamin Polzin]

Hi Karl,

You may want to get in touch with Jim Brandt (Commission on Parish Schools
Administrator) as his office is able to help schools out with the process of
applying for E-Rate Funding.

A couple of gotchas that I've heard of with the E-Rate program:
1) The application process does take some work. Current status, plus a
future technology plan need to be developed with the E-Rate application in
mind.
2) I think part of it (or all of it) is also based on the number of students
in the school who are or would be eligible to participate in the
free/reduced lunch program and also whether the school is a rural or urban
school. For many WELS schools, their rank in this area means they won't get
much of a discount.

Also check out this page if you're looking for ISP/telecom provider savings:
http://www.wels.net/cgi-bin/site.pl?telecomOffer

Ben Polzin

On 12/2/07, Karl Henselin <karl.henselin at stmarkpartners.org> wrote:
>
> Is there any WELS school that anyone knows of currently using E-Rate
> Funding? It seems to me that either individual schools or the WELS as
> a whole could apply. I would think that we could save a substantial
> amount of money through it. I would guess that it would save us more
> money than any of the other discount programs we have tried.
>
> Karl Henselin
> St. Mark Lutheran School
> Green Bay, WI 54304
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