June 2025

Texas Opens $25 Million in Broadband Workforce Development Grant Funding

The Texas Broadband Development Office (BDO) published a Notice of Funding Availability requesting applications for the Building the Texas Broadband Workforce Grant Program. The program makes $25 million in grant funding available for successful applicants to build or expand accessible educational opportunities to grow a skilled and robust Texas broadband workforce. To learn more about the program, visit the Electronic State Business Daily posting. Clarifying questions will be accepted through June 30, and applications will be accepted no later than July 31.

Attorney General Platkin Leads Multistate Lawsuit Challenging Trump Administration’s Illegal Attempts to Terminate Critical Federal Funding to States

New Jersey Attorney General Matthew Platkin announced that he is leading a coalition of 21 Attorneys General and the state of Pennsylvania in suing the Trump Administration over its unprecedented and unlawful attempts to invoke a single provision buried in the federal regulations to strip away billions of dollars in critical federal funding for states and other grantees.

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Three Questions About BEAD Non-Deployment Funding

The Department of Commerce’s National Telecommunications and Information Administration recently announced sweeping changes to the Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment Program.