Squid:SquidGuard
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With the passage of the Children's Internet Protection Act, schools are required to filter access to the internet in order to be elegible for E-Rate funds. E-Rate can be a substantial amount of money. With tightening budgets, foregoing the E-Rate funds will not be an option in most cases.
Unfortunately, commerical filtering software is very expensive.
This puts quite a burdon on under-funded schools. They need the E-Rate funds to help pay for internet access, but in turn must spend a significant amount of money on filtering software.
The good news is that there exists free filtering software. Until recently, MESD had been using expensive commercial filtering software. We are very pleased with the performance of squidGuard, the schools we support report that they much prefer squidGuard.
The official squidGuard web site is located here:
Also see the MESD squidGuard web site:
