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  "description": "Thursday’s FCC E-Rate inquiry would raise compliance burdens for consultants, participants, and providers, librarians said in interviews",
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  "publishedAt": "2026-06-27T13:49:21.000Z",
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  "textContent": "WASHINGTON, June 27, 2026 – Librarians and their allies are speaking up about how worried they are about the Federal Communications Commission’s efforts to target E-Rate.\n\nIn interviews with Broadband Breakfast, these officials said the agency’s inquiry could disrupt a system – the $2.4 billion subsidy program for schools and libraries – that they describe as working well.\n\nAnd Sen. **Ed Markey** , D-Mass., regarded by many as the author of the original E-Rate program established by the 1996 Telecom Act, blasted the FCC’s Thursday vote to reopen key aspects of E-Rate policy.\n\n“Today’s FCC vote is a deeply troubling step toward weakening E-Rate, a universal program that has connected millions of students, teachers, schools, and libraries — in urban and rural communities alike — to the internet for 30 years,” Markey said Thursday in a release.\n\nLearn about America250 / Telecom150\n\n\n                            Learn about America250 / Telecom150\n                        \n\n### This post is for subscribers only\n\nBecome a member to get access to all content\n\nSubscribe now",
  "title": "Library Groups Mobilize Against FCC Proposal to Reshape E-Rate",
  "updatedAt": "2026-07-08T09:47:12.518Z"
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