# Modernization of the Schools and Libraries “E-Rate” Program
> **Federal Communications Commission** · Final rule. · Published 2014-08-19 · Effective 2014-09-18 · 79 FR 49160
## Document
- **Document number:** 2014-18937
- **Category:** broadband
- **Federal Register citation:** 79 FR 49160
- **CFR reference:** 47 CFR 54
- **Publication date:** 2014-08-19
- **Effective date:** 2014-09-18
- **FCC docket:** WC Docket No. 13-184
## Abstract

In this document, the Federal Communications Commission (Commission) takes major steps to modernize the E-rate program (more formally known as the schools and libraries universal service support mechanism). Building on the comments the Commission received in response to the E-rate Modernization NPRM, and the E-rate Modernization Public Notice, as well as recommendations from the Government Accountability Office (GAO), the program improvements the Commission adopts as part of this document begin the process of reorienting the E- rate program to focus on high-speed broadband for our nation's schools and libraries.

## Source
- [Federal Register document](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2014/08/19/2014-18937/modernization-of-the-schools-and-libraries-e-rate-program)
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