Skip to content

Member Newsletter

AESA’s weekly newsletter, Online News, is full of important updates, articles, and features. It is intended to connect members with information about what is happening at the federal level, provide AESA event information, and share news important to ESAs.

Read the Current Issue of AESA Online News

member newsletter previewMay 6 2025: Lead AI Trainers Announced; AESA Recaps Asia Travels; AESA National Awards Nominations; April 2025 State Examiner; Perspectives update; Federal Advocacy Updates; Member Updates including Region 16 ESC's For the Love of Pre-K podcast; Student U.S.–Korea International STEM Research Program; and more.

Online News Archives

Federal Updates

FCC Releases State by State Info on How Universal Service Fund Impacts States

August 12, 2024

By Noelle Ellerson Ng, Associate Executive Director, Policy & Advocacy, AESA  Background: The Universal Service Fund is a $8 billion decades-old mechanism created by Congress in 1996 to support vital communications investments where the marketplace falls short: connecting schools and libraries to high-speed internet; helping rural hospitals adopt telemedicine; ensuring low-income households have basic communications services;…

Read More

AESA Joins EdLiNC Coalition in Expressing Deep Frustration with 5th Circuit E-Rate Decision

August 2, 2024

On July 24, the 5th Circuit struck down the funding mechanism for the universal service fund, which includes the E-Rate program. E-Rate provides $4.7 billion annually for schools and libraries to receive broadband and Wi-Fi services. This is an extreme decision that contradicts two rulings from other circuits as well as a previous three judge panel of…

Read More

USED Issues Resources to Help Schools Prepare for 2024 Title IX Regulations

July 29, 2024

As schools prepare to implement amended Title IX regulations on August 1, 2024, the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR) released new resources to support schools in those efforts. The resources are:   Title IX Regulations: Pointers for Implementation, which supports schools by listing key components of the 2024 Title IX regulations…

Read More
Scroll To Top