Daily School Involvement for Parents is Just a Point and Click Away at Zangle.com.Business/News Editors CUPERTINO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 6, 2000 Zangle.com is an Internet-based company with a target audience of parents, teachers and administrators of K-12 children. By focusing on the strong concern that parents have for the quality of their child's education, Zangle.com provides confidential access to unique, detailed child-specific data and creates an effective communications link between home and school. Available via the web under tight security, Zangle.com combines the information that already resides on school district student information systems with daily updates by classroom teachers and school administrators. Parents can access their child's grades, homework assignments, attendance records, class schedules, school announcements and performance assessments. Complementing the website is a comprehensive collection of informational resources specific to the ongoing challenges faced by parents everywhere. Founded in August 1999, Zangle.com began installing its software in its first school district (comprised of 29 schools and 19,200 students) in January 2000. Zangle.com's installation base will be greatly expanded over the next several months, and a major multi-market launch is planned for September 2000. Paul Charlton Paul Charlton may refer to:
C2B Command and Control Battlelab C2B Consulting to Business C2B Commerce to Business C2B Customer to Business C2B Client to Business , which was sold to Inktomi (Nasdaq:INKT INKT Inktomi, Inc. (stock abbreviation, AMEX) INKT I Never Knew That ) in 1998 for $158 million. Charlton brings key engineering and operational experience to Zangle.com, having led projects at companies such as Apple (Nasdaq:AAPL AAPL Apple Computer, Inc. (stock symbol) AAPL American Association of Professional Landmen AAPL American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law AAPL Advance Audiovisual Presentation Limited AAPL Advocates for Arkansas Public Libraries ), and the Wall Street Investment bank D.E. Shaw & Co., where he worked closely with Jeff Bezos Jeffrey Preston Bezos (born January 12, 1964 , Albuquerque ) is the founder, president, chief executive officer, and chairman of the board of Amazon.com. Bezos, a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Princeton University, worked as a financial analyst for D. E. Shaw & Co. , founder of Amazon.com (Nasdaq:AMZN AMZN Amazon.com (NASDAQ symbol) ). Enter Net Development Corp., an Internet incubator founded by Charlton, provided initial funding for the company. |
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