The priority of the E-rate program in the...

The priority of the E-rate program in the future must be ensuring there’s “high-speed Wi-Fi in every classroom,” FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler said in a letter to Rep. Bob Goodlatte, R-Va. Now, 40 percent of classrooms are not Wi-Fi enabled, Wheeler said. E-rate modernization is “one of the most important issues before the Commission today,” he said. Goodlatte wrote Wheeler July 10 to raise general concerns about the FCC’s direction on the program, and Wheeler replied Monday. The letters were posted by the FCC Friday in docket 14-8 (http://bit.ly/YdXc5K).