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SchoolMatch: SchoolMatch direct. (New Products).


www.schoolmatch.com, Internet Internet

Publicly accessible computer network connecting many smaller networks from around the world. It grew out of a U.S. Defense Department program called ARPANET (Advanced Research Projects Agency Network), established in 1969 with connections between computers at the
, $50 set-up fee, plus $10-$25 per report card/month

This new service gives teachers, administrators, parents and relocating families who visit a school or district Web site access to SchoolMatch Report Cards. The report cards rate K-12 districts using auditable data, including national percentiles, lists of school buildings and school community information, as well as information about extracurricular, athletic athletic (athlet´ik),
adj pertaining to a bodily constitution characterized by a strong, muscular, robust appearance.

athletic injuries,
n.
 and academic programs provided by the district. SchoolMatch has data on every school system in the country, so districts do not need to have retained SchoolMatch in order for their information to be included in its databases. A district may provide access to only its own report card, or to report cards from similar or neighboring neigh·bor  
n.
1. One who lives near or next to another.

2. A person, place, or thing adjacent to or located near another.

3. A fellow human.

4. Used as a form of familiar address.

v.
 districts, as well.

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