In the same week as Texas’s South by Southwest education conference, Washington, DC-based advocacy group, The Consortium for School Networking (CoSN), released new guidelines for schools and libraries to help education technology decision makers navigate the Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC) $2.4 billion E-Rate Program which will shift spending away from antiquated technologies—like dial-up Internet—and devote money to broadband and elsewhere. (The CoSN is a member-based association for technology decision-makers in K-12 education.) The guidelines are part of CoSN's ongoing Smart Education Networks by Design (SEND) initiative that not only provides resources and guidance for technology decision makers in education, but helps schools and libraries understand how their system networks function and improve connectivity. Broadband connectivity—in both schools and school libraries—has been a focus of the Obama administration, as was covered in The New York Times (February 1, 2014) when it reported "the FCC announced that over the next two years, it would double its spending toward adding high-speed Internet to schools and libraries as part of President Obama's promise, issued during this year's State of the Union address, to provide broadband service for an estimated 20 million American students in 15,000 schools." E-rate has lent itself to discussion regarding the topic of "net neutrality"—or the standard of equal access to internet content—as covered by Library Journal this past February after FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler publicly outlined a new proposal for a set of net neutrality rules following the Circuit Court of Appeals (in D.C.) ruling against the FCC's authority on net neutrality. As the changes to e-rate become more evident—or not—CoSN's guidelines can be a useful resource for ed tech decision makers.