Our goal at Minneapolis Public Schools is to use information to support student achievement, communications, and make everyone involved in the educational process including parents more productive. With help from Compaq, we re much closer to achieving our objective. For schools receiving those E-Rate funds, September 30th is the deadline for having all ordered items delivered, installed and billed. All invoices are due to the SLD no later than December 15th. There have been about 32,000 applicants and SLD employees are feverishly reviewing the individual requests to determine who will receive funding.
Major changes are in the works for funding year three.
A committee was established earlier this year to review the procedures that were put in place when the SLD was first established. The suggestions range from revisions of the two most familiar forms the 470 and the 471 to establishing evergreen 470s for long-term contracts. ProjectBuilder will be available on October 1, while GrantWriter is awaiting final approval on new E-Rate forms. Compaq Education Web Broadcast focusing on the latest word on E-Rate, ProjectBuilder and GrantWriter features. Through Compaq Services for Education and our network of dedicated education service partners, we are uniquely positioned to deliver a total service solution based on your school s Information Technology requirements.