The Center for Public Integrity has A Look At The E-Rate. They say it’s honeycombed with fraud and financial shenanigans, but the government officials in charge say they don’t have the resources to fix it.
“The program has allowed schools and libraries to do things they would have never been able to do any other way,” says Winston E. Himsworth, president of E-Rate Central, a consulting firm used by the New York State education system to prepare and process E-Rate applications. “Like most people close to the program, I hope there are more prosecutions coming. The program doesn’t need beneficiaries or service providers like that.”
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