Communications Platform Will Help District Reach Broader Constituent Base Cost Effectively
State College, Pennsylvania, 21st April 2009 - Schoolwires, Inc., one of the nation"s leading providers of strategic website and community management solutions for building stronger school communities, more effective schools and greater student success, announced today that Chandler Unified School District (CUSD) in Arizona has licensed the company"s Centricity TM solution.
The district, with enrollment of 37,000 students, licensed Centricity TM to support its objective of reaching a broader base of constituents cost effectively, and to further CUSD"s green initiatives by reducing the number of paper documents circulated by the district.
"Our parents and other community members have told us that they want increased communications from the district and that they want them electronically," said Terry Locke, director of communications for CUSD. "The Schoolwires platform will allow us to make available a large amount of information and resources to the entire community in a way that is easily accessible to them and easy for our teachers, staff members and others to create and post on the district website."
Although the district currently has a website, posting content to it requires the expertise of a skilled IT professional. The demands for updated and new content are too great for one person to maintain. Also, the website is difficult to navigate and has limited applications for interactivity and multimedia. To date, the district has traditionally sent home paper documents with their students, however, that information only reaches families with children in school. It is too costly to mail paper documents to the broader constituent base.
"Only 25 percent of our population has children in school, so we have not been connecting well with our broader community of taxpayers who also have an interest in our schools," explained Locke. "Centricity will help us meet our obligation of communicating with all our stakeholders, and being more accountable to the public."
Centricity is the first and only strategic solution for connecting K-12 communities -- an all-in-one, user-centric solution that puts all district and school constituents on the same page. Unlike any other solution, Centricity enables collaboration, works hand-in-hand with digital file sharing,improves communications, enhances operational efficiency, and encourages broad adoption and participation by administrators, teachers, families and students. It is a hosted, on-demand solution designed to offer very high levels of security, performance and reliability.
"We applaud Chandler for addressing the critical need to engage with their broader community and we look forward to partnering with them as they transform their district"s communications platform," said Edward S. Marflak, founder and CEO of Schoolwires.
About Chandler Unified School District
Chandler Unified School District is located in suburban Phoenix. The district educates 37,000 students at 39 schools. With 4,000 employees, the district is the second-largest employer in the city, behind the Intel Corporation.
About Schoolwires, Inc.
Schoolwires Inc. (http://www.schoolwires.com/) is headquartered in Pennsylvania, USA.
Schoolwires provides strategic online communication, community-management and productivity solutions to the K-12 education market. The company"s core product is Centricity TM, which brings together robust and flexible website management, community management and web 2.0/social network capabilities in a single, user-centric solution. Schoolwires also delivers Schoolwires Synergy TM, a digital file sharing solution, Schoolwires AssistTM, a service request solution, and Schoolwires Share, an exclusive online client community and support center.
Schoolwires is recognized in the Inc. 500 List as one of the fastest-growing private companies in the nation. The company"s on-demand solutions are deployed at nearly 4,000 schools serving an estimated four million students, parents, teachers and administrators throughout North America.
