{"id":871805,"date":"2026-10-05T17:10:13","date_gmt":"2026-10-05T17:10:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/871805\/"},"modified":"2026-10-05T17:10:13","modified_gmt":"2026-10-05T17:10:13","slug":"fcc-weighs-cuts-to-school-internet-subsidies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/871805\/","title":{"rendered":"FCC weighs cuts to school internet subsidies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\">The Federal Communications Commission is conducting a wide-ranging review of the federal program that provides <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chalkbeat.org\/2026\/09\/23\/e-rate-school-internet-subsidies-threatened-in-screen-time-backlash\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">internet subsidies<\/a> to schools in the name of curbing screen time. But schools say losing internet access would be catastrophic for students.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.chalkbeat.org\/authors\/erica-meltzer\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Erica Meltzer<\/a>, national editor at Chalkbeat, joins us to discuss.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">This segment airs on October 5, 2026. Audio will be available after the broadcast.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Federal Communications Commission is conducting a wide-ranging review of the federal program that provides internet subsidies to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":871806,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[174,74],"class_list":["post-871805","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-internet","tag-internet","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/871805","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=871805"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/871805\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/871806"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=871805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=871805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=871805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}