Find your region
See E-Rate in your school district.
Enter your ZIP code — or search by district, county, or Intermediate Unit — to open your region’s detail.
Detailed regional vignettes now cover all 29 of Pennsylvania’s Intermediate Units — every public school district in the Commonwealth, organized by region.
See it on the map
See E-Rate across Pennsylvania.
Every dollar on the map is drawn from USAC’s public data and attributed to the county — and school district — it serves. Start statewide, then zoom into your own backyard.
Open the statewide map →What the FCC has proposed
The FCC calls it a review. It reads as a threat to unwind E-Rate.
In June 2026 the FCC adopted a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM). As summarized by AESA and its partners AASA, ASBO, and NREA,4 the proposal reaches far beyond routine review — and each item lands on schools and libraries in every Pennsylvania community.
Phasing out E-Rate altogether.
−$64M / year to PennsylvaniaExcluding “non-rural” districts — a label USAC applies to more than half of Pennsylvania’s ~500 school districts, from big cities to small towns.
Over half of PA’s districts cut off — not just the metrosThis isn't about screen time. It's about cutting our youngest learners off from the digital books, learning tools, and wider world their classrooms open up.
Our youngest learners lose their first connection to learningReducing or withholding funding over Form 479 / CIPA compliance — turning a routine safety certification into grounds to cut a school's connectivity.
Every district already certifies CIPA complianceMaking E-Rate contingent on new federal rules — screen-time limits, social-media bans, mandated curricula — decisions that have always belonged to local schools and states, not the FCC.
Classroom decisions handed to WashingtonProtecting student and staff data takes modern, secure networks — and E-Rate is how districts afford them. Cutting the funding doesn't erase the obligation; it just pushes the cost onto local property-tax budgets.
Data-security costs fall back on local taxpayersWhere Pennsylvania's E-Rate goes
Districts, consortia, and libraries — the whole public-connectivity fabric.
Committed federal funding, FY2016–2026, grouped by applicant type. School districts anchor the program; regional consortia are the second-largest type, pooling buying power so member schools can buy connectivity together — a category that spans IU-run regional networks like the AIU’s alongside library, non-public, and charter-school consortia.3
Committed to Pennsylvania each funding year
FY2026 is still open — its lighter bar shows commitments to date. Statewide federal committed share of funded requests, de-duplicated to the funding-request level. Source: USAC Open Data (qdmp-ygft).
Support that follows need — not geography
The less a district can afford, the more E-Rate provides.
E-Rate scales its support to each district's share of economically disadvantaged students, so Pennsylvania's least-resourced districts draw the deepest support: of the 514 public school districts with FY2025 Category One filings, 201 — nearly 4 in 10 — qualify at the maximum 90% rate, and 292 — 57% of them — qualify at 80% or above.5 And the top tier is not an urban story or a rural one: Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, and Reading sit at 90% right alongside Hazleton Area and East Stroudsburg. Support follows poverty, not geography.
Every region depends on it
One county's story, multiplied across the Commonwealth.
In Allegheny County alone, E-Rate has committed $46.2M to 43 public school districts and their career and technical centers. That investment also supports a shared regional wide-area network, coordinated by the Allegheny Intermediate Unit, that provides high-quality connectivity to 46 member districts and career and technical centers.
Allegheny County is just one of Pennsylvania's 29 Intermediate Unit regions. Multiply this story across urban, suburban, and rural communities statewide, and you begin to see the scale of what is at stake: $672 million in federal E-Rate investment supporting Pennsylvania's schools and libraries.
Your voice is needed — now
Take action to protect E-Rate.
The FCC's comment period is open now, giving us a narrow window to show Congress and the FCC what these changes would cost Pennsylvania's schools and libraries. Here's how to help — it takes two minutes.
Sign on with the Digital Trust Hub
Add your district or organization to our statewide coalition standing up for E-Rate. One signature adds your name to both the comment we file with the FCC on Docket 26-133 and our coalition's letters to lawmakers — we handle the federal filing for you.
Sign your organization on →Tell Congress to protect E-Rate
Reach out directly to your lawmakers. Our partners at the Consortium for School Networking (CoSN) have a one-click tool that finds your U.S. Senators and Representative and sends them your message.
Contact Congress now →Find your delegation
The CoSN tool routes to your exact offices automatically — your two U.S. Senators, Sen. John Fetterman and Sen. Dave McCormick, and your local U.S. Representative — wherever in Pennsylvania you live.
Short on words? Use this template ↓
Make it local: find your district on the statewide map and drop your own numbers into the letter — a message grounded in your district’s figures lands hardest.
Sources
The data behind this page.
Every figure on this page comes from USAC's public federal E-Rate Open Data, funding years 2016–2026. Each source is linked below. How we pulled and de-duplicated this data →
- Pennsylvania E-Rate committed funding. The federal share of funded requests filed by all Pennsylvania applicants — $672.3M across 1,321 districts, schools, consortia, and libraries, FY2016–2026.
- PA disbursements. Funds actually paid out to Pennsylvania billed entities (Forms 472/474): $612.3M — a 91% realization of commitments.
- Funding by applicant type. Committed dollars grouped by organization type — districts, consortia, schools, and libraries.
- Proposed FCC rule changes. Summarized from the member advocacy update by the Association of Educational Service Agencies (AESA) — with the School Superintendents Association (AASA), the Association of School Business Officials (ASBO), and the National Rural Education Association (NREA) — on the FCC's Notice of Proposed Rulemaking reviewing the E-Rate program.
- District discount rates. FY2025 Category One discount percentages for the 514 Pennsylvania public school districts with current-version FY2025 applications — 201 at the 90% maximum, 292 at 80% or above.
