Iowa Department of Education

Public school districts, nonpublic schools, area education agencies and public libraries are eligible to apply for funding under the Universal Service Administrative Company "E-Rate" Program. E-Rate provides discounts on telecommunications services (such as telephone service and data circuits), Internet, and internal connections (such as routers and switches). Information about the E-Rate program can be found at http://www.universalservice.org/sl/. Training and information about completion of E-Rate forms can be found at http://www.iptv.org/iowa_database/erate/.