A personal letter beats a form letter. This tool helps you build one — grounded in your community's real E-Rate numbers, in your own words — addressed to the FCC. It takes about five minutes.
Once your letter is drafted, you can either cut/paste the text to your preferred platform or export to a Word document for final formatting and revision. The platform does not save drafts, so be mindful to export and save.
Once your letter is final, follow these steps to submit the letter to the FCC. Need help filing? Contact Noelle Ellerson Ng (nellerson@aasa.org).
🔒 Your letter is assembled in your browser and never sent to us — no account, no sign-in, and we never see what you write. We count anonymous visits and clicks to see how the tool is used.
1Who you are
Your role sets the letter's voice. District and library leaders get the full AASA comment structure; everyone else gets a shorter letter in a personal voice.
Naming your school, district, or library adds its real committed E-Rate funding to the letter — the kind of local evidence the FCC asked commenters to provide.
Enter a ZIP code above and the nearest districts, schools and libraries appear here — no exact spelling required.
2What matters to you
Pick the points you want to make, then add a sentence or two in your own words — the Commission weighs personal, evidence-based comments far more than identical form letters. An example is shown in each box — don't copy it, use it as a starting point.
3Your comment
A comment for the FCC's public record. Copy the text, or download it as a Word document for final formatting and your signature.
Prefer to start in Word? Download the AASA comment template (.docx) and fill in the bracketed sections yourself.
Funding figures are federal E-Rate commitments, funding years 2021–2025, from USAC Open Data (qdmp-ygft) — the same verified data behind the national map and data inspector. Want to reach Congress too? Use the coalition’s Contact Congress tool — that ask is less time sensitive than the FCC filing.