ADVISORY/Boston Schools to Unveil New Technology to Track Truancy; Pilot program with Nextel and AirClic will enhance Boston Public Schools Attendance Initiative to reduce truancy.News Editors/High-Tech & Education Writers ADVISORY...for Wednesday (April 3) --(BUSINESS WIRE) Wireless technology provider Nextel Communications Nextel Communications, styled NEXTEL, (Former NASDAQ: NXTL) which is now known as the Sprint Nextel Corporation was a telecommunications firm based in the United States. Known for providing a nation-wide mobile communications system. Inc. and software and services company AirClic Inc. will introduce advanced tools for monitoring student attendance in a program expected to have implications for schools nationwide.
Who: Boston Public Schools and Mayor Thomas Menino, Nextel
Communications Inc., AirClic Inc.
What: A press conference to announce a ground-breaking
pilot program that uses cell phones and mobile
information management software to curb truancy and
beef up security.
When: Wednesday, April 3rd at 2:00 p.m. EST
Where: Boston City Hall, Eagle Room, 5th floor
Why: Supervisors of Attendance and Boston Schools Police
will be able to speed up their response times in
better orchestrated efforts intended to reduce the
absentee rate, which studies show correlates closely
with crime rates.
Other press conference attendees include Dr. Thomas Payzant, superintendent of schools; Steve Gag, City of Boston chief technology officer; John Sisco, director of school police, Boston Public Schools Boston Public School is a feeder school to Townsend Central Public School and Waterford District High School, part of the Grand Erie District School Board. It is located in Boston, Ontario, near Waterford, Ontario, at 2993 Cockshutt Road, Waterford, Ontario N0E 1Y0. ; Timothy Enright, area vice president, Nextel; Lewis Taffer, senior advisor In some countries, a Senior Advisor is an appointed position by the Head of State to advise on the highest levels of national and government policy. Sometimes a junior position to this is called a National Policy Advisor. , North American North American named after North America. North American blastomycosis see North American blastomycosis. North American cattle tick see boophilusannulatus. commercialization, AirClic; and Suren Gupta, executive vice president, operations and information services See Information Systems. , AirClic. About Nextel Nextel Communications Inc., based in Reston, Va., is a leading provider of fully integrated wireless communications wireless communications System using radio-frequency, infrared, microwave, or other types of electromagnetic or acoustic waves in place of wires, cables, or fibre optics to transmit signals or data. services and has built the largest guaranteed all-digital wireless network in the country covering thousands of communities across the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. . Nextel and Nextel Partners Inc., currently serve 197 of the top 200 U.S. markets. Through recent market launches, Nextel and Nextel Partners service is available today in areas of the U.S. where approximately 230 million people live or work. For more information visit www.nextel.com. About AirClic, Inc. Founded in 1999, AirClic Inc. (www.airclic.com) is a Web-based software and services platform company providing the mobile information market with an end-to-end content-aware infrastructure to more easily and economically transact with their global users. Any number can be turned into a SmartCode(TM) when scanned, spoken or manually entered to initiate context-based transactions between virtually any application and any communication device using the Internet, wireless infrastructure or a phone line. AirClic is headquartered in Blue Bell, Pa. and maintains offices in New York City New York City: see New York, city. New York City City (pop., 2000: 8,008,278), southeastern New York, at the mouth of the Hudson River. The largest city in the U.S. and Stockholm, Sweden. |
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