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Fueled By Rapid Growth, SchoolMint Funding Nears $8 Million

PreK-12 Online Enrollment Platform Achieves Frontrunner Status As It Expands To Over 2,000 Schools With Strategic Partnerships And Dynamic Leadership

SAN FRANCISCO, February 10, 2016 – SchoolMint, the leading provider of mobile and online enrollment and school choice systems for PreK-12 public, charter and private schools, today announced that their recent Series A round brings total funding to close to $8 million. The $5.6 million round was led by Runa Capital, with participation from Reach Capital (New Schools), Fresco Capital, Govtech Fund, Kapor Capital, Crosslink Capital, Maiden Lane Ventures, CSC Upshot, and individual investors Jared Kopf, Josh Reeves (Founder and CEO of Gusto), and Tomer London (Founder of Gusto). The capitalization is part of the company’s rapid growth as it moves into an increasing number of districts and schools throughout the country.

PublicSchoolWORKS’ Client Services Team Selected as a Finalist in 2016 Stevie® Awards

Winners will be announced on Friday, March 4, 2016 at the Paris Las Vegas Hotel in Las Vegas, Nevada

Cincinnati, OH – February 9, 2016 – PublicSchoolWORKS was named a finalist in the Customer Service Department of the Year - Public Services & Education category in the 10th annual Stevie® Awards for Sales & Customer Service, and will ultimately be a Gold, Silver, or Bronze Stevie Award winner in the program.

Walker County Public Schools Turns Around Student Achievement with Personalized Learning from Fuel Education

The Anywhere Learning System tailors digital instruction and assessments to students’ individual strengths and weaknesses

Herndon, Virginia, February 8, 2016 – In 2011, Walker County Public Schools in Jasper, Alabama, had many obstacles standing in its way for both educators and students, including high percentages of students who qualified for free and reduced lunch, high dropout rates, and low graduation rates. Seeing this as an opportunity to better support students academically, Walker County Public Schools partnered with Fuel Education™ (FuelEd™) to provide students with access to the Anywhere Learning System for a more personalized learning experience.

National Association of School Psychologists Recognizes PresenceLearning as an NASP-Approved Provider

School psychologists can now earn continuing professional development (CPD) credit for attending PresenceLearning’s free webinars

SAN FRANCISCO, February 4, 2016 – Members of the National Association of School Psychologists (NASP) are required to earn at least 75 credit hours of continuing professional development (CPD) during each member’s 3-year renewal period. However, earning these hours can be expensive as well as very challenging because school psychologists juggle such full schedules of assessments, student sessions, paperwork and IEP meetings. To provide NASP members with free, convenient opportunities to earn CPD credit, PresenceLearning applied for, and was approved by, the NASP-Approved Provider program so that NASP members can attend PresenceLearning live webinars to earn CPD credits at no charge.

Vernier’s New LabQuest Stream™ Expands Data-Collection Possibilities with Bluetooth® Connectivity

LabQuest Stream allows students to stream data from multiple sensors directly to a mobile device, Chromebook, or computer

BEAVERTON, Oregon, February 3, 2016 – To expand data-collection possibilities in the science classroom, Vernier Software & Technology, the leading worldwide innovator of real-time sensor data-collection, graphing, and analysis tools for science education, has developed LabQuest Stream™. This wireless and USB sensor interface allows students to collect scientific data from multiple sensors with a mobile device, Chromebook™, or computer. LabQuest Stream provides educators the freedom and flexibility to collect data using a wide variety of computing platforms, and it is compatible with more than 50 Vernier sensors.

K-12 School Districts can Take a Load off Knowing Traffic is Managed with ContentKeeper’s New Load Balancing Appliances

The ContentKeeper Load Balancing Appliance (CK-LBA) provides districts high-availability, fail-safe networking at an affordable price

Austin, TX (February 3, 2016) – BYOD and 1:1 programs, now mainstream in schools, are causing district networks to experience increasing speed and volume demands. To accommodate these demands and to ensure networks are always up and running, districts should install load balancing appliances, however these appliances are often financially out of reach.

SFP Capital and Sagamore Ventures Invest $1.25M in CWIST

CWIST relocates to Baltimore, MD’s City Garage as it focuses on hiring and growth

Baltimore, MD – Feb. 2, 2016 – SFP Capital and Sagamore Ventures have invested $1.25 million in CWIST, a web platform supporting learning projects for students ages 3 to 103. The investments are the first in a planned $1.5 million round of funding and will allow CWIST to hire a team to strengthen and expand services for its current partners and grow its customer base.

Fuel Education Introduces Career Readiness Pathways, an Online and Blended Learning Program for Career and Technical Education

New end-to-end program enables schools and districts to offer students courses, tools, and exam and workforce preparation for multiple career pathway certifications necessary to succeed in both college and career

Herndon, Virginia, February 1, 2016 – The new global economy is craving highly skilled workers to fill high-demand jobs. According to the Georgetown Center on Education and the Workforce, by 2020, 65 percent of all U.S. jobs will require postsecondary education and training beyond high school. In response, high schools are switching their focus from vocational technology programs to more comprehensive career and technical education (CTE) in order to more effectively prepare students for both college and careers. To help high schools launch comprehensive CTE programs that offer students opportunities to earn a high school diploma and industry certifications, Fuel Education^™ (FuelEd^™) has launched Career Readiness Pathways™, an online and blended learning program for CTE.

Fulton County Schools Standardizes A/V Technology Districtwide with Epson BrightLink® 595Wi Touch-Enabled Interactive Projectors

District Chooses Epson for Its Total Cost of Ownership, Color Brightness and Interactivity Tools

LONG BEACH, Calif. – Jan. 27, 2016 – To improve students’ and educators’ technology experience in classrooms districtwide, Fulton County Schools in Metro Atlanta is installing a BrightLink^® 595Wi interactive projector from Epson, the number-one projector manufacturer in the world, in each of its 6,100 classrooms. At the end of the two-phase implementation, which is projected to be completed in fall 2016, Fulton County Schools’ implementation will be the largest BrightLink 595Wi installation to date.

Vernier Honored for Stellar Service

Company also named a finalist in two Global Educational Supplies & Solutions (GESS) Awards

BEAVERTON, Oregon, January 19, 2016 – Vernier Software & Technology has received the 2016 Tech & Learning Stellar Service Award for ‘Best Help Site Portal’ for its Technical Information Library (TIL), a portal that houses an extensive library of technical information, troubleshooting advice, answers to questions frequently asked by teachers, and more than 1,000 searchable technology tips. The company was also recently named a finalist in two categories for the Global Educational Supplies & Solutions (GESS) Awards: Multinational Company of the Year and Best Free App.