Youngstown schools hope to get federal money for communication services

YOUNGSTOWN — The city school district is hoping to get more than $1.7 million worth of telecommunications services next fiscal year for just $342,000.

That’s the rough estimate that Genie Natale, the district’s director of educational technology supervisor, gave the school board’s finance committee tonight.

The bulk of the funding would come from the federal Universal Service Fund, more commonly known as E-Rate. The district would have to come up with the $342,000.

The fund was created by the federal government to help underwrite the cost of telecommunication and Internet access services to schools and libraries. It’s run by the Federal Communications Commission.

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