How does an Intermediate Unit compute the discount for which it should be eligible?
We do not have a definitive answer at this time, and expect that the Fund Administrator and/or the FCC will have the ultimate decisionmaking power on this issue. It is the ultimate responsibility of School Corporation, the Fund Administrator, to compute the discount for each applicant. Our current thinking on the issue: • If the IU is serving as an aggregator and purchasing eligible services on behalf of the school districts which it serves, and allocating the costs of the services among the various school districts, then the IU’s discount should be a composite of the school districts it serves. The composite discount could be based on either a weighted average (the approach which school districts themselves are required to use if procuring services for more than one eligible school entity) or a simple average methodology (sum the discounts for each school district and divide by the number of school districts; this is the methodology that library systems are supposed to follow). Depend
