Hugely successful project leveraging $11M in state funding to bring in over $100M in Federal Erate funds to Arizona Schools
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Students Served:
Total number of students that will be impacted when projects are complete.
Total Funding Requested:
Total amount of funds that have been "Requested" from USAC.
Total USAC Denied:
Total amount of Special Construction that USAC has denied over the past 3 years.
Erate Portion:
Amount of Federal dollars Arizona has requested from the program is in either funded or awaiting funding.
State Portion:
The USAC "Special Construction" program allows the state to contribute up to 10% in matching funds.
School Portion:
Schools that are below 80% (Erate NSLP) must make up the difference between the Federal and State money.
Total Paid Out:
Total dollars that have been paid from the State Match Fund to an authorized vendor.  The State Match funding is only released after the project is 100% complete and all upgrades have been verified by the State Erate Director, Milan Eaton.
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Arizona has expertly used the $8M from the Corporation Commission combined with $3M from the Governor's office to provide $130,000,000 in Broadband infrastructure projects for Arizona schools and libraries. No other project has ever had so much impact for so little state investment!