E-Rate Consulting LLC, was founded by Richard Bernstein MA SDA MSC SUB, is a New York State Certified School District Administrator and a doctoral candidate at New York University Graduate School of Education. He has been involved in the administration of schools for the past thirty years and has consulted for the program since its inception in 1998.

Over the years he has secured millions of dollars in new funding for schools, restored hundreds of thousands of dollars in denied funding and positioned schools to deal with on site audits and fund recovery proceedings. Most importantly, he has guided schools through the e-rate process so that their applications undergo minimal scrutiny. Richard's golden rule is: applications that are done properly (within program rules and within specified and unspecified guidelines) at the onset, move through the process smoothly.