Expanded Partnership Provides More Texas Districts with In-State Support Center and Cost Benefits
State College, Pennsylvania, 13th May 2009 -- Schoolwires, 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 it has expanded its partnership with Education Service Center (ESC) Region XI in Texas to provide certified hosting of the company"s solutions to more districts in the state.
For several years, ESC Region XI has been providing training, hosting and support for the CentricityTM, Synergy TM and Assist TM solutions from Schoolwires for the 77 districts and 35 charter schools in its service area. The new partnership allows ESC Region XI to provide the same support to almost all districts throughout the state.
The partnership gives districts throughout the state of Texas the option of having ESC Region XI or Schoolwires as their source for hosting, training and ongoing support. This gives districts the convenience and flexibility of receiving hosting, training and other support from a site located within the state at a reduced cost. Also, districts will likely save money on travel expenses by receiving their training at the Texas site.
ESC Region XI chose to expand its support of the Schoolwires solutions based on its positive experience with the products, said Shirley Van Vleck, Webmaster, Education Service Center Region XI. "We have been impressed with the features and capabilities of the products. We hope that by providing services locally, we will encourage more districts to consider the Schoolwires solutions and thus benefit from their potential to improve communications, enhance a district"s image and improve student performance."
Schoolwires provides K-12 districts with strategic website and community management solutions. The heart of the solution suite is Centricity, 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. Synergy is a digital file sharing solution and Assist provides districts with a service request management solution.
"We are pleased that ESC Region XI has agreed to provide its quality hosting and services for our family of products beyond the boundaries of its immediate service area," said Edward S. Marflak, founder and CEO of Schoolwires. "ESC Region XI has been a reliable hosting and services provider for more than three years with its highly skilled staff who are knowledgeable about the Schoolwires solutions and are extremely focused on customer satisfaction."
About Education Service Center Region XI
ESC Region XI is one of 20 education service centers established by the Texas State Legislature in 1967. As an intermediary educational agency, ESC Region XI provides information, services, staff development, and support to 77 public school districts and 35 charter schools in a 10-county area in north central Texas. The Region XI area includes 67,000 educators and more than 521,000 students. For more information, visit
www.esc11.net/aboutESCXI
AboutSchoolwires, Inc.
Schoolwires Inc. (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 CentricityTM, 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 SynergyTM, 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.
