{"id":44971,"date":"1998-12-30T00:00:00","date_gmt":"1998-12-30T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/93eea9ae-1dfb-11e4-aedf-250bc8c9958e"},"modified":"1998-12-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"1998-12-30T00:00:00","slug":"93eea9bf-1dfb-11e4-aedf-250bc8c9958e","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/93eea9bf-1dfb-11e4-aedf-250bc8c9958e\/","title":{"rendered":"Feds to help schools in communication costs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Public School System is targetting fiscal savings in communication expenses by embracing the so-called E-rate, which the federal government is offering, said acting Fiscal and Budget Officer William Matson.<\/p>\n<p>Up to $100,000 in savings are expected to be realized from fiscal 2000.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is not a grant but rather the federal government will help the schools with their communication expenses for phones and internet,&#8221; Matson said.<\/p>\n<p>The federal E-rate program amounts to a subsidy to communication costs at PSS, with the exception of its central office.  PSS and the federal government will split the bill.<\/p>\n<p>Sharing arrangements range from 50-50 to 10-90, depending on the income level of the state.<\/p>\n<p>Based on initial discussions with the lieutenant governor&#8217;s office, the federal government is likely to agree to pick up 80 percent of the tab for PSS.<\/p>\n<p>But Matson said the savings are not enough to ease the budget crunch at PSS, noting that the E-rate program is to take effect on 2000 yet.<\/p>\n<p>He said though, &#8220;This is good news because if we get 80 percent then we would get closer to $95,000 that we would not have to pay.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Public School System is targetting fiscal savings in communication expenses by embracing the so-called E-rate, which the federal government is offering, said acting Fiscal and Budget Officer William Matson.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44971","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44971","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44971"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44971\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}