Introduction

The U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO), at the request of Congress, is conducting a review of the E-rate program. As part of this review, we are surveying a representative sample of E-rate beneficiaries, and your entity has been randomly selected to participate. For the purposes of this questionnaire, we have identified your entity name and type as shown below. Please base your responses on the experience of this entity. Entity Name: [entity name]. Entity Type: [entity type]. This questionnaire should be completed by the person or persons with knowledge of and experience with (1) tasks related to the E-rate program, such as preparing forms and responding to information requests, and (2) your entity's technology goals and plans. If you use the services of a paid consultant for any E-rate tasks, please confer with this individual as needed to accurately complete the questionnaire. If you are a paid consultant working for the entity named above, please confer with a knowledgeable individual at this entity in preparing your responses. Only GAO staff assigned to this study will be able to access and view your responses. We will report the results of our survey in summary form, and if we discuss any individual answers in our report, we will exclude any information that could be used to identify individual respondents. GAO will not otherwise release individually identifiable responses unless compelled by law or required to do so by Congress.

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Full Report: GAO-09-253

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