THE CHARTER MARKETPLACE: 
WHERE SUPPLY MEETS DEMAND

This first-ever exhibit of its kind allows representatives from the nation's 2,400 charter schools to find the services and equipment they need from over 70 vendors (see partial list below). CER's Charter School Marketplace is being held in conjunction with the 2002 National Charter Schools Conference, June 19-22 in Milwaukee, WI.

Market hours: 
        Wednesday, June 19, 1 p.m.-7 p.m.
        Thursday, June 20, 7 a.m.-8 p.m.
        Friday, June 21, 7 a.m.-8 p.m.
        Saturday, June 22, 7 a.m.-11 a.m. 

For additional information please contact Rebecca Bragg at 800-521-2118, or by e-mail at: rebecca@edreform.com.

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Charter Marketplace 2002
Partial List of Vendors

ABS School Services, LLC
2133 W. Peoria Ave., #102
Phoenix, AZ 85029
Contact: Frank Riggs
602-749-2600
877-538-6211
Fax: 602-749-2697
E-mail: friggs@matrixbancorp.com
Website: www.abs-services.com

A B S = America’s Best Schools. ABS School Services is the country’s premiere provider of business management and financial accounting services to charter schools. Based in Phoenix, Arizona, ABS contributes to the academic and financial success of its 100 plus client schools by providing insurance, grant writing, facilitates management, educational curriculum and school administration services. ABS is also the largest charter school lender in the country for both working capital and facility needs.

ABS School Services and IMA
1550 17th St., #600
Denver, CO 80202
Contact: Ken Atkinson
303-615-7466
Fax: 303-615-7805
E-mail: ken.atkinson@imacorp.com

IMA and ABS Package Insurance Program. We are pleased to introduce a new strategic partnership between IMA Financial Holdings and ABS School Services. Our goal is simple: To provide charter schools with the broadest insurance coverages available in the market place today at the most competitive prices. We have teamed up with several "A-rated" insurance carriers that are committed to providing the specialized coverages needed by a charter school. By receiving multiple quotations you can compare and contrast coverages and premiums, selecting the proposal with the greatest value for your school at this time.

Advanced Academics
100 East California Ave., Suite 200
Box 11
Oklahoma City, OK 73104
Contact: Faith Carriere

American Academy for Liberal Education
1710 Rhode Island Ave., 4th Floor
Washington D.C., 20036
Contact: Margaret Price
202-452-8611
Fax: 202-452-8620
E-mail: mprice@aale.org
Website: www.aale.org

The American Academy for Liberal Education accredits exemplary charter schools nationwide. As an external evaluator with high academic standards, AALE helps strengthen the study of liberal arts and sciences from the early years through the teens, and provides a reliable measure of institutional health to parents, students, and the public. Charter school self-studies, written in response to AALE Accreditation Standards, center on content-rich curriculum, frequent assessment, teacher quality, special education, and stable finance and governance.

American Quality Schools
850 W. Jackson Blvd., Ste. 275
Chicago, IL 60607
Contact: Renee Chambers
312-492-3013
Fax: 312-226-1027
E-mail: rchambers@aqs.org

American Quality Schools is a not-for-profit educational management and consulting firm. Located in the Chicago area, we specialize in the general management and day-to-day operations of charter schools. In addition, we are involved in educational training and consulting with school districts and other educational entities on management and curriculum issues.

B.A.S.I.C. EDUCATION
P.O. Box 550
Abingdon, VA 24212
Contact: Jean R. Hill, Ph.D.
866-835-5729 (Toll Free)
Fax: 276-676-0550
E-mail: info@basic-education.com
Website: www.basic-education.com

B.A.S.I.C. EDUCATION is a consulting firm dedicated to teaching excellence and school reform. It is not a "one size fits all" company. The six areas of concentration are: Leadership; Standards and Curriculum; Instructional Strategies; Assessments; Learning Environment; and Parental Involvement. It provides individual diagnosis, trainer consistency, content area specialist, and practical – not theoretical – solutions to everyday problems. School staff and B.A.S.I.C. EDUCATION collaboratively determine the school’s improvement plan to meet the school’s needs.

Becker School Supplies
12300 McNulty Rd.
Philadelphia, PA 19154
Contact: Erick Becker
800-523-1490 ex. 102
Fax: 215-464-8991
E-mail: erich_b@ctbinc.com

Becker's School Supplies, family-owned and-operated since 1928, is working hard to become your #1 choice for all your Charter School equipment and supply needs. With more than 74 years' experience, Becker's takes the big job of equipping a new school and makes it easy, with our turnkey operations. We work everyday to provide total customer satisfaction including both outstanding merchandise and the highest level of personal service.

BudgeText Corporation
P.O. Box 1487
Fayetteville, AR 72702
Contact: Mindy Cordell
479-443-9205
Fax: 479-442-3064
E-mail: mcordell@budgetext.com

Quality used textbooks, workbooks, AP titles, and T.E.’s available at up to 75% off publisher’s list price. Over 4 million used books in stock representing all major publishers. New Dictionary Reference and Classic Literature representing all major publishers at up to 40% off publisher’s list price. We also purchase surplus textbooks from schools for redistribution.

Cayen & Associates, LLC/SARCS Database
6606 W. Lisbon Ave.
Milwaukee, WI 53210
Contact: Joe Cayen
414-871-8401
Fax: 414-873-1676
E-mail: jacayen@cayen.net

SARCS, School Administration and Report Card System, is a user-friendly database system designed to manage the administrative tasks for a school. SARCS features the ability to: track comprehensive student records over multiple years of enrollment; customize report cards to meet your school’s curriculum; input students’ grades into the system via diskette or local area network; scan bar-code attendance rosters for daily attendance, breakfast, lunch and after school programs via wand scanner or PDA; fully networkable database application developed in Microsoft Access.

The Center for Education Reform
1001 Connecticut Ave. NW
Suite 204
Washington, D.C. 20036
800-521-2118
Fax: 202-822-5077
Website: www.edreform.com

The Center for Education Reform (CER) is a national voice for more choices in education and more rigor in education programs, both of which are key to more effective schooling. It delivers practical, research-based information and assistance to engage a diverse lay audience – including parents, policymakers, and education reform groups – in taking actions to ensure that US schools are delivering a high quality education for all children in grades K-12.

The Chapman Corporation
P.O. Box 17141
Charlotte, NC 28227
Contact: Chris Chapman
800-206-4054
Fax: 704-573-1413
E-mail: ccsearch@msn.com

The Chapman Corporation is a nationwide background screening service founded in 1994 in Charlotte, North Carolina. The Company specializes in criminal history checks, credit checks, sex offender checks, driving histories and other background searches. The Chapman Corporation currently serves over 100 Charter Schools, Public School Systems, Private Schools, Universities, Community Colleges, Children’s Homes and After School Programs. The Chapman Corporation can also customize a screening program that fits your Charter School’s needs and budget.

Charter Facilities Funding, LLC
7125 Chardon Ct.
Clarksville, MD 21029
Contact: Craig Stanley
301-854-9416
Fax: 301-854-9415
E-mail: cstanley@cbofinanical.com

Charter Facilities Funding, LLC was formed by national charter school experts to apply for New Markets Tax Credits for the charter school industry. It offers site selection, permit processing, construction & permanent financing, construction management, legal and school management services. The team includes ABS School Services (Frank Riggs), Dougherty & Company (Dick Ward), CBO Financial, Charter Schools Development Corporation (instrumental in establishing the Charter School Facilities Financing Demonstration Program), Briggs & Morgan (John Cairns) and City First Bank (Tom Nida).

Childcraft Education Corp.
2920 Old Tree Drive
Lancaster, PA 17603
Contact: Lisa Ketner, Tricia Hayes
800-631-5652
Fax: 888-532-4453
E-mail: lketner@childcrafteducation.com

The Conover Company
2926 Hidden Hollow
Oshkosh, WI 54904
Contact: Terry Schmitz
920-231-4667
Fax: 920-231-4809
E-mail: conover@execpc.com

The Conover Company markets software as well as print instructor-led materials for the following: anger management; emotional intelligence; substance abuse prevention; conflict resolution; and violence prevention. We also have a full line of software products that apply academic skills (math, communications, science, problem solving) to the workplace based on student interest. Finally, for your career development needs we have a complete hands-on, career exploration and assessment system.

Corporate Computer, Inc.
6095 28th St., SE Suite 110
Grand Rapids, MI 49546
Contact: Larry Brannan
Phone: 616-942-8865
Fax: 616-942-5650
E-mail: lbrannan@corpcomp.com

Corporate Computer, Inc. will be demonstrating the "Authorizers Oversight Information System" (AOIS) jointly developed with Central Michigan University Charter School Office. This web-based system has many innovative features including a "compliance status light" for each school that shines green, yellow or red indicating if the school is currently in compliance or out of compliance. All documents are stored in electronic image format. Be sure to take time to visit this state of the art compliance system.

DataTeam Systems
4911 Legends Dr.
Lawrence, KS 66049
Contact: Craig McCollam
877-843-8150
Fax: 785-843-5138
E-mail: sales@datateamsys.com

DataTeam Systems, Inc., is a full service provider of financial and administrative solutions to schools, governments and not-for-profits. We sell and support our fund accounting system in 43 states. Complimenting fund accounting, DataTeam offers human resources, fixed asset/inventory, cafeteria point-of-sale, e-procurement, activities accounting, and web services. DataTeam Systems, is the "Trusted Administrative Solutions" provider to over 2,000 clients nationwide. We utilize Microsoft Windows-based development tools to ensure the widest compatibility.

The Eastridge Companies, LLC
1225 19th St., Ste. 650
Washington, D.C. 20036
Contact: Stephanie Bridgeforth or Greg Derby
866-266-1999
202-207-0840
Fax: 202-207-0844
E-mail: sbridgeforth@eastridgecompanies.com; gderby@eastridgecompanies.com

The Eastridge Companies ("TEC") is a national provider of comprehensive real estate facility solutions to the education industry. TEC services include site selection/acquisition analysis, facility planning and development, financing, design, build-to-suit/sale-leaseback, project management and construction coordination to public, private and charter schools. With offices in Arizona, California and Washington, DC, TEC’s staff of seasoned educational and real estate professionals are available to assist on projects anywhere in the United States.

EdSolutions, Inc.
131 Belle Forest Circle, Suite 210
Nashville, TN 37221
Contact: Margaret Mary Wilson
615-673-6917
Fax: 615-673-6921
E-mail: mmwilson@edsolutionsinc.com

EdSolutions, Inc. (ESI), a Tennessee-based corporation established in 1996, has designed and employed an innovative extended day program that emphasizes the individual academic needs of students. ESI has established a presence with over 150 program sites in 12 states. With over 50 years experience in the education industry, ESI’s management believes that its extended day programs, with individualized academic instruction, provides a value-added choice to parents, children and school districts.

Ed-Tech, Inc.
500 West Kennedy Blvd.
Lakewood, NJ 08701
Contact: Eli Schwartz
732-367-9919
Fax: 732-367-9918
E-mail: eschwartz@edtechsolutions.com

Ed Tec is an information technology service provider committed to bringing the highest standard of modern computer technology into our children’s schools. At Ed-Tec, we offer a complete spectrum of networking products, services, reliable support, and excellent customer service. Ed Tec is currently promoting the E RATE GRANT. If properly understood and utilized, it can revolutionize your school’s standards.

Educational Facilities Solutions
7300 W. McNab Rd., #217
Tamarac, FL 33321
Contact: Mark Howard
954-722-1141
954-494-7433
Fax: 954-722-1186
E-mail: mgfl@aol.com

Educational Facilities Solutions (EFS) consults with charter school operators and their boards in their efforts to acquire facilities. EFS can assist with lease negotiations, site location, real estate purchase, development planning, financing alternatives, and equity. EFS will develop and lease facilities for charters who meet certain financial criteria.

Educators Publishing Service, Inc.
31 Smith Pl.
Cambridge, MA 02138
Contact: Jeanne Tierney
617-547-6706
Fax: 617-547-0412
E-mail: jeannet@epsbooks.com
Website: www.epsbooks.com

Educators Publishing Service publishes supplemental workbooks, for use in the classrooms and Resource Rooms, in Reading, Reading Comprehension, Phonics, Writing, Spelling, Vocabulary, Critical Thinking, Math, English and Learning Differences for grades K -12. EPS books correlate to State Standards.

EdVISION Corporation
110 West A St., Ste 800
San Diego, CA 92101
Contact: Ellen Hobart
800-998-4531 ex. 5182
Fax: 619-615-0516
E-mail: ehobart@edvision.com
Website: www.edvision.com

EdVISION Corporation develops educational software to improve student success. We create and market products for the "what" and the "did we." Curriculum Designer provides a tool for creating curricula. Skills Connection is an assessment product designed to help teachers bridge the gap between classroom and home. The Performance Series is revolutionizing placement testing in schools across the country, providing online computer-adaptive testing in Reading and Math, with other subjects to follow soon.

E.M.S.
1150 Foothill Blvd.
La Canada, CA 91011
Contact: Mitch Hawn
818-952-1790
Fax: 818-952-1795
E-mail: mhawn@emsofl.com

Education Management Services offers development and management solutions to charter schools. It has accumulated over ten years of expertise in curriculums, personnel, information systems, purchasing, and charter school operations. EMS can help you too, whether you are starting a new charter school or seeking to optimize your school's efficiency. EMS uses Edutrac, a state-of-the-art Internet-based school management system, to simplify administrative tasks and reduce paperwork. Let EMS help you help kids.

ewebSys, Inc.
1320 Mt. Diablo Blvd., Suite E
Walnut Creek, CA 94596
Contact: Debra Jack
925-939-3396
Fax: 925-287-0099
E-mail: djack@ewebsys.com

Bring your charter school into the 21st Century with eWebED, our affordable premier school administration software product. eWebED’s database integrates student, family, teacher, and classroom data to include course creation, teacher scheduling, class rosters, daily attendance, grading and integrated report cards. Our optional grade book, TeacherBooks, maintains student grades, emails parents, creates web pages, and mails out progress reports. Final report card grades are interfaced so report cards and transcripts are created in eWebED quickly and seamlessly.

Girls and Boys Town
National Resource and Training Center
14100 Crawford St.
Boys Town, NE 68010
402-498-1335
800-545-5771
Fax: 402-498-1280
E-mail: nrtcmarketing@girlsandboystown.org

The Girls and Boys Town National Resource and Training Center offers school assessments, comprehensive consultations and staff development training to teachers and administrators nationwide. From our highly acclaimed education model to our workshops on creating safe schools, Girls and Boys Town provides innovative solutions, positive outcomes and dramatic results.

GevityHR
520 S. Price St., Suite #2
Tempe, AZ 85281
Contact: Bruce Maxwell
480-967-4569
888-827-2960
Fax: 480-967-7014
E-mail: bruce.maxwell@gevityhr.com

Since 1984 GevityHR has grown into the largest Benefits and Human Resource solutions provider in the world. GevityHR provides medical and retirement benefits, human resource consulting, online payroll processing, workers compensation, Section 125 and COBRA administration for its 1000 member companies which include charter and private schools, IT companies, CPA firms, and many other professional occupations. Our school division currently services schools in thirty-one states. GevityHR ranks #1 on the Information Week 500 list for business services and consulting, #483 on the Fortune 500 list of America’s largest companies, and the 2001 recipient of the prestigious Computer World Smithsonian Honors Award.

The Haskell Company
111 Riverside Ave.
Jacksonville, FL 32202
Contact: Dave Balz
904-791-4500
Fax: 904-791-4699
E-mail: ddbalz@thehaskellco.com

The Haskell Company provides comprehensive development services of Planning Design, Construction, Project Finance and Facility Operation. Haskell has been a national leader in charter school development with over 12,000 student stations in 14 charter schools, comprising over $160 million in new charter schools. With over 1,100 employees and offices in Florida, Texas, California and North Carolina, Haskell serves a wide spectrum of K-12 and post secondary clients.

Incentive Publications, Inc.
3835 Cleghorn Ave.
Nashville, TN 37215
Contact: Michael Patenaude
800-421-2830
Fax: 615-385-2934
E-mail: mikep@incentivepublications.com

Incentive Publications and Kids’ Stuff™ educational materials are research based, cutting edge, high student interest, and easy to use. Educators look to Incentive Publications for materials to produce both affective and cognitive student performance; teacher efficiency; and pre-service/in-service staff development training and assessment. Educators also express appreciation for Incentive Publications’ continued emphasis on developing research based products of high student interest that are developmentally appropriate for the intended age levels and are exceptionally easy for the teacher or parent to use.

InfoCor Communications Company
11270 West Park Place, Suite 335
Milwaukee, WI 53224
Contact: Jackson Veit
414-979-0890
Fax: 414-979-0956
E-mail: jackson_veit@infocor.com

Learn how to easily and effectively enhance your curriculum dollars with InfoCor Communications. We will demonstrate how you can use the "Smart Board" to create dynamic curriculum without the cost of additional teachers; use websites for curriculum development; use state supported programs for curriculum; assist with aligning curriculum to state, national and local standards, create in-service programs; multi site conferencing opportunities; parent and community enlightenment; and excellence in classroom management. See how you can improve learning from 30% retention to 90%. The result is "empowered teachers and empowered learners!

Innovative Modular Solutions
1555 Naperville/Wheaton Rd., Suite 206
Naperville, IL 60563
Contact: Mary Roberts
630-305-0300
800-357-4699
Fax: 630-305-3695
E-mail: mroberts@innovativemodular.com
Website: www.innovativemodular.com

Award winning modular classrooms and office space – new and used, temporary and portable or permanent, leased or purchased – cost effective and quick! "Not the same old trailers."

Jim’s Mobile Offices
P.O. Box 547
Marion, IL 62959
Contact: Jim Helleny
800-747-5467
618-997-6072
Fax: 618-993-8734
E-mail: jim@jimsmobileoffices.com

Jim’s Mobile Offices provides high quality relocatable and modular classrooms and administrative offices to schools, commercial entities and the construction industry. Start now with a double classroom and expand and grow to multi classroom multi sectional building with bricked exterior. Serving the Midwest for 14 years, Jim’s Mobile Offices provides buildings to meet the most exacting requirements.

Joseph Meirow & Associates, LLC
465 McVicar
Romeo, MI 48065
Contact: Joe Meirow
586-531-1531
Fax: 586-752-1926
E-mail: joe@josephmeirow.com

The Parent/Teacher Information Exchange (PTIX) helps schools easily track volunteer time. School staff or volunteers create events on a calendar. Parents can "see" the events over the Internet and sign up for them. On the date of the event, the duration is automatically credited to the family’s volunteer hours account. There is one calendar for school level events and each classroom has its own calendar. Many other features are included.

Kaplan Early Learning Company
P.O. Box 609
Lewisville, NC 27023-0609
Contact: Rosanne Latham
800-334-2014
Fax: 800-452-7526
E-mail: rlatham@kaplanco.com

Kaplan Children Teach Us How to Play & Learn! Kaplan is expanding the ways we teach and learn, and children teach us how to play and learn. Children are our greatest resource for the future. For over thirty years, we have committed ourselves to providing the best for today's classroom and centers. We are excited to introduce our newest division: The PACT Group. The PACT Group's focus on Publishing, Assessment, Curriculum and Training lends itself to a truly unique approach to early learning providing the tools, materials and expertise to help train both educators and children.

KC Distance Learning
420 W. 5th
Bloomsburg, PA 17815
Contact: Margaret Gustus
800-255-4937 ex. 5532
Fax: 570-784-2129
E-mail: mgustus@keystonehighschool.com
Website: www.keystonehighschool.com

KC Distance Learning is the home of Keystone National High School, a regionally accredited, independent study high school program offered in both correspondence and online formats. Our professionally developed courses cover all major subject areas, plus electives. Keystone has extensive experience in providing high quality curriculum and service to numerous charter and cyber charter schools. Keystone also provides coursework to students in hundreds of traditional high schools, and to thousands of homeschooled students. KCDL also is home to the Learning and Evaluation Center, a credit make-up program for grades 5 through 12 with over 30 subjects extensions available.

Lab-Volt Systems, Inc.
P.O. Box 686
Farmingdale, NJ 07727
Contact: Robin Duggan
732-938-2000
Fax: 732-774-8573
E-mail: rduggan@labvolt.com

Lab-Volt’s hands-on, competency-based training system prepares students to succeed in all types of technical occupations. Vocational programs provide training on industry-standard equipment for electricity and electronics, manufacturing, construction, telecommunications and information technology. Several dynamic, multi-media based programs meet the growing need for technology education: Tech-Design introduces students to 44 different technologies; and the Tech-World programs focus on pre-engineering and information technology.

Lakeshore Learning Materials
2695 E. Dominquez ST.
Carson, CA 90810
Contact: Barbara Vega
310-537-8600 ex. 2769
Fax: 310-632-8314
E-mail: bvega@lakeshorelearning.com

Lakeshore Learning Materials offers a complete line of essential language arts materials from pre-reading early childhood through adult education. Many of these items are exclusive to Lakeshore.

Life Skills Training
141 S. Central Ave.
Hartsdale, NY 10530
Contact: Jill Richardson
914-421-2525
Fax: 914-683-6998
E-mail: jrichardson@nhpanet.com

LifeSkills Training is a groundbreaking substance abuse prevention program developed by Gilbert J. Botvin, Ph.D. for elementary and middle school students based on more than 20 years of scientific research. It is comprehensive, interactive and penetrating in its dynamic approach to addressing the underlying causes of tobacco, alcohol and illicit drug use. Unlike other prevention programs that merely claim that they work, Lifeskills Training has solid evidence of its effectiveness. More than a dozen major scientific studies show that Lifeskills Training reduces substance abuse.

McCloud Construction
P.O. Box 661
Brookfield, WI 53008
Contact: Gary Kautzer
262-784-1804
Fax: 262-784-7180
E-mail: gkautzer@mccloudconstruction.com

McCloud Construction, Inc. is a full-service construction management and general construction firm. From our headquarters in Milwaukee and branch offices in Neenah, Wisconsin and Tampa, Florida, we provide professional construction services to our clients throughout the United States. McCloud Construction provides a full range of services from project inception and feasibility through occupancy and commissioning, with a specialty in "fast-track" design/build construction.

Miller Johnson Steichen Kinnard
920 Second Avenue South
Minneapolis, MN 55402
Contact: John Grafelman
612-370-2704
800-537-7829
Fax: 612-370-2747
E-mail: jgrafelman@mjsk.com

Miller Johnson Steichen Kinnard ("MJSK") is a full-service investment banking firm located in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The firm provides financing to charter schools for the acquisition of facilities. To date, MJSK has provided close to $200,000,000 to over 50 schools throughout the country and is the recognized national leader in charter school finance.

Mosaica Education
880 Las Gallinas Ave., Suite 1
San Rafael, CA 94903
Contact: Irene Ford
415-491-1305 ex. 103
Fax: 415-491-1309
E-mail: iford@mosaicaeducation.com

Mosaica Education, Inc. will proudly present a combination of marketing and informational materials that convey the company's unique classical approach to education-solid skill-building combined with cultural literacy. Mosaica is a company dedicated to the success of charter schools with an emphasis on the individual child. We will illustrate our unique proprietary approach toward education with the use of video and printed materials. An overview of our educational philosophy will enable conference participants to appreciate the value of charter schools in general and of Mosaica Education, Inc. specifically.

National Heritage Academies
989 Spaulding, SE
Grand Rapids, MI 49546
Contact: Mark DeHaan
616-222-1700
Fax: 616-575-6409
E-mail: mdehaan@heritageacademies.com; jlindsey@heritageacademies.com

National Heritage Academies provides a comprehensive educational program based on what parents want most for their children. The program provides a proven curriculum and embraces teaching methods that promote a nurturing atmosphere. NHA contracted with its first partner school, Excel Charter Academy, in Grand Rapids, Michigan, in the fall of 1995. With the success of Excel, the organization grew quickly, contracting with 31 additional schools located in Michigan, North Carolina, New York and Ohio. The success of the educational program has attracted thousands of very satisfied parents, creating tremendous demand and opportunities for additional NHA partnerships. NHA anticipates continued growth, including expansion into new states.

Nasco
901 Janesville Ave.
Ft. Atkinson, WI 53538
Contact: Tom Blezer
920-563-2446
Fax: 920-563-8296
E-mail: tbelzer@enasco.com

Nasco’s 15 different catalogs offer a unique blend of products for educators. Our mission is to provide customers with the best in quality, selection, personal service and affordably priced products. Started by a teacher in 1941 who developed several teaching aids that filled classroom needs, Nasco now offers over 60,000 items to teachers worldwide.

NCS LEARN
827 W. Grove Ave.
Mesa, AZ 85210
Contact: Tracey Obeso
888-NCS-LEARN
Fax: 520-615-7601
E-mail: tobeso@ncslink.com

NCS Learn, an NCS Pearson business, offers solutions to help you on your mission – in managing accountability, assessing student learning, and supporting the challenges presented by new standards. NCS Learn products include: SASIxp™ cross-platform school administration; CIMS® G/T data management; NCS ABACUSxp™ instructional management; and the proven SuccessMaker®, NovaNET®, and Destinations™ courseware systems. In 2002, we will bring to market the first comprehensive online education community in the world – NCS4School™.

Nova Southeastern University
1750 NE 167th St.
North Miami Beach, FL 33162
Contact: Phyllis M. Olmstead, Ph.D.
954-262-8717
Fax: 954-262-3988
E-mail: olmstead@nova.edu

Nova Southeastern University is the 12th largest independent university in the country with 20,000 students and 68,000 graduates in fields ranging from medicine and dentistry to education, law, psychology, business, the humanities, and oceanography. NSU’s Fischler Graduate School of Education and Human Services is one of the largest accredited graduate schools of education in the U.S and offers master’s, educational specialist and doctoral degrees in a wide range of specializations from charter schools education/leadership and teacher education to educational leadership and child and youth services – many in personalized format and all offered at times and locations convenient to the learner.

Parent’s Choice Network
1166 Broadway, Suite Q
Placerville, CA 95684
Contact: Susie Self
530-295-3556
Fax: 530-295-3583
E-mail: susie@ieminc.org

Parent’s Choice Network (PCN) is dedicated to providing parental choice and customized learning opportunities for all students. As an educational service and professional development provider, PCN provides charter school development, services and support, voucher programs, and private homeschool services throughout the United States. PCN also provides parental advocacy, special education services and school financial services and funding. PCN provides free diagnostic services and suggested program offerings, along with parental support services.

Parents In Charge
1849 Sawtelle Blvd.
Suite 600
Los Angeles, CA 90025

Pathway Publishers
P.O. Box 612955
Dallas, TX 75261
Contact: Jerry Reagan
972-353-9168
Fax: 972-353-9017
E-mail: pathwaypublisher@aol.com

Pathway Publishers’ OdysseyWare™ is a full content curriculum that can be tailored to fit students at all levels of the learning process – from "at risk" to "advanced" learners. Teachers are enabled to address effectively the diverse academic needs of each student.

Power-Glide Foreign Language Courses
1682 W. 820 N.
Provo, UT 84601
Contact: Deloy Haws
800-596-0910
Fax: 801-343-3912
E-mail: deloyh@power-glide.com
Website: www.power-glide.com

Power-Glide is a fully accredited foreign language and ESL school, with courses for Pre-K – 6th grade and 7th-12th grade. The unique, adventure-based courses develop quick speech, comprehension, and lifetime skills. Our courses and materials are used in charter, public and Christian schools, homeschooling, and government. We are the leader in distance learning and self-study language with courses available in Spanish, French, German, Latin, Russian, Japanese and ESL-Spanish.

Preferred Meal Systems, Inc.
5240 St. Charles Road
Berkeley, IL 60163
Contact: Jeff Thomas
201-220-9084
Fax: 973-465-7911

Founded in 1967, Preferred Meal Systems pioneered the development of a total component meal school lunch system to meet the needs of rapidly expanding school enrollments and rising food, labor, and equipment costs. The System provides all of the services necessary to deliver nutritious quality, hot lunches to students in elementary schools at minimal cost to the school districts that we serve. Preferred Meal Systems serves more component school lunches than any other company in our industry. Our experience, expertise and proven track record provides your schools with a professional foodservice program.

Remedia Publications
15887 N. 76th St., #120
Scottsdale, AZ 85260
Contact: Cheryl Hickman
480-661-9900
Fax: 480-661-9901
E-mail: cheryl@rempub.com

Santillana USA Publishing Co., Inc.
2105 NW 86th Ave.
Miami, FL 33122
Contact: Sherry Franceti-Tarrio, Ronald Castro
305-591-9522
Fax: 305-463-9066
E-mail: starrio@santillanausa.com

For over 30 years, Santillana USA has been publishing educational materials to meet the specific needs of students in this country. The mission of Santillana USA is to make learning and teaching English and Spanish an experience that is motivating, enriching, and effective for both teachers and students. We help to develop people’s creativity and bring ideas and imagination into education.

Saxon Publishers
2600 John Saxon Blvd.
Norman, OK 73071
Contact: Conrad Duprez
800-284-7019
Fax: 405-573-6464
E-mail: cduprez@saxonpublishers.com

Saxon Publishers has been producing results-focused educational curricula since 1981. Saxon’s math and phonics programs are used in nearly 25,000 schools across the world. Saxon has developed curricula that are proven to work in the classroom. Saxon students see results – not only in test scores, but actual comprehension and mastery of material. At a time when the nation is struggling to dramatically improve student performance, Saxon has the answers and the track record.

School Specialty
W6316 Design Dr.
Greenville, WI 54942
Contact: Bill Higbee
920-882-5642
Fax: 920-882-4410
E-mail: bhigbee@schoolspecialty.com

School Specialty, Inc., "The Nation's Education Resource," is the largest direct marketer of supplemental educational supplies to schools and teachers for pre-kindergarten through twelfth grade in the U.S. We offer over 80,000 different products, many of which are exclusive items. The company mails over 38 million catalogues annually to customers, and serves its customers through approximately 2,500 full-time employees. The School Specialty brand focuses on serving administrators and procurement specialists through a national sales force of over 300 territory managers. The company's eight specialty brands - ClassroomDirect, Childcraft, Sax Arts and Crafts, Frey Scientific, Brodhead Garrett, Teacher's Video, Premier Agendas and Sportime - serve teachers and curriculum specialists.

Scientific Learning
300 Frank H Ogawa Plaza, Suite 500
Oakland, CA 94612
Contact: Erin Lavin
510-267-7000
Fax: 510-874-1870
E-mail: elavin@scilearn.com

Fast ForWord programs align with the goals of the No Child Left Behind act by combining assessment, intervention and proven results. Based on reading research combined with over 25 years of neuroscience research, Fast ForWord programs build the foundational skills that are critical for reading and all learning.

Softek Services, Inc.
N14 W23777 Stone Ridge Dr., Suite 150
Waukesha, WI 53188
Contact: Khuzema (Kim) Adam
262-523-9050
Fax: 360-838-6740
E-mail: khuzema@softekservices.com

Softek Services, Inc. is an Internet solutions provider and distributes an affordable e_Learning platform for educational institutions called The Learning Sphere, a product of Alphasolv. The Learning Sphere features innovative powers that allow teachers to provide instruction using web pages, documents, pictures, movies, and sounds that students can access any time, anywhere. It offers management of curriculum with greater flexibility by allowing teachers to share resources across different courses. In addition to flexible curriculum modules, it provides interaction opportunities that make it a powerful tool for instruction, regardless of the training forum.

Software Technology, Inc.
1105 Hillcrest Rd.
Mobile, AL 36695-3921
Contact: John E. Edmonds
251-639-1851
Fax: 251-639-7392
E-mail: eedmonds@sti-k12.com

Software Technology, Inc. is a national supplier of administrative software for tracking student records. The flagship product – STIOffice – includes: Schedules, attendance, grade reporting (electronic grade book-lesson planner-attendance from teachers desk), discipline tracking, textbook tracking, counselor sessions, student demographics, teacher information and attendance, parent information, user definable files, health records, transcript information and report queries. STI will also include for the beginning of next school year a Tuition-Tracking module.

Stardata Technologies
6100 Lake Forrest Drive, Suite 580
Atlanta, GA 30328
Contact: Don Groff
404-531-0100
Fax: 404-531-0200
E-mail: dgroff@stardatatech.com

The schoolSERVER™ student information system from Stardata Technologies enables schools and districts to manage student data more efficiently and with greater control. This comprehensive web-based application allows teachers, administrators, students and parents to access appropriate views to real-time information, and requires only browser access via an Internet connection. schoolSERVER™ contains a broad array of functionality designed by educators to ensure ease of use, and is built on a state-of-the-art security infrastructure to safeguard data.

Starr School Caterers, Inc.
9882 Southwest Freeway
Houston, TX 77074
Contact: Tony Gradney
713-283-6464
Fax: 713-283-7517
E-mail: tgradney@aol.com

STARR’s mission is to provide quality, well-balanced, nutritious and cost efficient meals offering the following: The MicroCheck computerized student meal and account tracking system at the serving sites; Quality menus with standardized menus that are analyzed for nutritional content by using the Nutrikids software; Our website at www.starcaterers.com that has deadlines, menus and useful links; Employees trained in customer service, safety and sanitation; Experienced foodservice professionals and a Director of Operations with over seven years experience as a Foodservice Director in the public school districts.

Teacher Created Materials
6421 Industry Way
Westminster, CA 92683
Contact: Bob Steinman
714-891-2273
Fax: 888-282-6808
E-mail: bsteinman@teachercreated.com

Everything from Teacher Created Materials is created by teachers for teachers. We produce high quality supplemental curriculum products and a wide range of technology products in addition to decorative items such as stickers, notepads, and bulletin boards. We also offer professional development training for educators of preschool through high school.

Total Education Solutions
1137 Huntington Drive
South Pasadena, CA 91030
Contact: Vicky Stiles
323-341-7775
Fax: 323-257-0284
E-mail: vstiles@tesidea.com

We are the IDEA (Individuals with Disabilities Education Act) compliance specialists! We offer a turnkey solution for all your special education needs including onsite special education program management, consultation and services. We provide a full range of special education instruction and related services by certified and licensed professionals to meet the IDEA. Our services are designed to fit any size school and are tailored to your school’s philosophy. Special education can be a huge burden on any administrator, let us do the paperwork and manage the personnel to keep you in compliance.

Touchstones Discussion Project
522 Chesapeake Ave.
Annapolis, MD 21403
Contact: Jill Bennett
410-263-2121
Fax: 410-974-8233
E-mail: jb@touchstones.org

Touchstones Discussion Project is a nonprofit organization that teaches the skills for better discussion through classroom materials and teacher training. Touchstones’ unique method of discussion improves students’ listening, speaking, and reasoning skills, develops student initiative, challenges students on all levels, and fosters a sense of community in the classroom. Student texts provide points for the weekly discussions, and teacher’s guides offer full lesson plans, tips, and strategies.

USDLC/StarNet
P.O. Box 249
Flowery Beach, GA 30542
Contact: Sandy LaPlante
800-368-3822, access code 01, or 770-967-9146
Fax: 770-967-6568
E-mail: slaplante@mindspring.com

United Star Distance Learning Consortium (USDLC), Inc., a non profit organization, has been a leader since 1985 in blending distance education technologies. StarNet, an initiative of USDLC, is a distance education network providing over 20 high school credit courses, over 150 hours of professional development for teachers and administrators, and over 120 hours of K-12 student enrichment programming. StarNet programming is easily accessible through live, interactive satellite broadcasts over DISH Network, Channel 9406, and the Internet.

Valpar International Corporation
P.O. Box 270517
Milwaukee, WI 53227
Contact: Neal Gunderson
800-633-3321
Fax: 262-797-8488
E-mail: nggl@aol.com

VALPAR – The world leader in related assessment. Featuring MAGELLAN... Motivating students to achieve higher state competency scores. Combine Magellan’s motivational theme with an optional academic skill building component to provide students a basis for successful lifelong learning, enrichment and achievement. NEW... Emotional Intelligence assessment and skill enhancement activities.

Vanguard Modular Building Systems
70-9 E. Swedesford Rd.
Malvern, PA 19355
Contact: David Gromlich
610-240-8686
888-650-8742
800-448-6772
Fax: 610-240-0561
E-mail: info@vanguard.com
Website: www.vanguardmodular.com

Defy the limitations of space and time with custom modular classrooms and administrative offices. Flexible finance lease and purchase options are available on turnkey temporary or permanent modular structures. Our experienced, knowledgeable sales and technical teams oversee your project from start to finish.

Xerox
245 Park Ave.
New York, NY 10167
Contact: Daniel Hanlay
212-716-4175
Fax: 212-716-4747

About Charter Schools from the Center for Education Reform