If you have an existing solution, are you paying to much?
Given all things, or at least the most important things are equal, it's an important question to ask, am I paying too much for my existing software solution?
Why is this important to charter schools? Here is our view, in the charter school sector we are privileged to be able to 'march to the beat of our own drum', and provide students and our communities with a unique vision and mission to educate and set a path for the future, for our most precious gifts, our children.
We get to do this under the tutelage of our public schools systems. We have the benefit of state funding, and the regulated umbrella of the public school system, however this does not mean that the system is not without it's flaws.
In many states we get less per child funding than the public schools and of course the big one is having to provide a school building on our own nickel. We often find ourselves having to jump through numerous financing hurdles (special financing arrangements, because we have no credit, long-term bond issuances, etc.), to provide an adequate and hopefully more than adequate school building for our children, parents and community.
Also, we can have "gaps" in funding, which necessitates an even greater attention to our cash flow, depending on how the district allocates funding, in a true-up, true-down scenario, our first allotment for the new school year can be based on last years ADM, so if we ended the year with 300 students, and had a fantastic working summer and enrolled 100 new students for the next school year - and had to hire 5 new teachers and 4 teacher assistants - our first allotment of school funding for the new school year is still based on the 300 students, not 400. It will "true-up", but in the meanwhile we have to meet a higher payroll, so we have to scramble to fill that funding gap, perhaps a higher-interest rate bridge loan. This is just one of the many reasons why watching every penny matters for charter schools, unlike public schools.
The bottom-line, is that with all of the attention and oversight we have to pay to school finances, it's another fiduciary responsibility to ensure that we are maximizing the use of our funds, especially when the difference in costs could mean the difference between a TA in the classroom (or not).
Also, we can have "gaps" in funding, which necessitates an even greater attention to our cash flow, depending on how the district allocates funding, in a true-up, true-down scenario, our first allotment for the new school year can be based on last years ADM, so if we ended the year with 300 students, and had a fantastic working summer and enrolled 100 new students for the next school year - and had to hire 5 new teachers and 4 teacher assistants - our first allotment of school funding for the new school year is still based on the 300 students, not 400. It will "true-up", but in the meanwhile we have to meet a higher payroll, so we have to scramble to fill that funding gap, perhaps a higher-interest rate bridge loan. This is just one of the many reasons why watching every penny matters for charter schools, unlike public schools.
The bottom-line, is that with all of the attention and oversight we have to pay to school finances, it's another fiduciary responsibility to ensure that we are maximizing the use of our funds, especially when the difference in costs could mean the difference between a TA in the classroom (or not).
We pay attention to everything that can possibly effect enrollment.
- Did you know that parents will abandon an enrollment form if it's overly complicated.
- Our form designs have been tested against millions of users for ease of use and simplicity to ensure a zero abandonment rate.
We understand what matters.
- Just one empty seat for one day will adversely impact your ADM (Average Daily Membership).
- Our platform provides for placing ordered wait-listed students into limited available seats with immediacy and within your admissions policy.
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What is a false sense of security in your enrollment system?
- Believing that because a family is enrolled online that they are guaranteed to show up on day one.
- We auto-detect families that are a high-risk for not showing up so you can call them.
Replace Paper Work and Phone Calls with Productivity
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An electronic enrollment and lottery platform is the fastest, easiest way to improve productivity, reduce operational costs, manual process errors, and deliver certainty on your state funding.
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Starting with the initial application through having a random lottery, and all the way to having student's fully enrolled into your school can be streamlined to happen within minutes vs. weeks.
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Our Enrollment/Lottery/Waitlist Management Platform helps you establish total control by facilitating parent interactions and using the velocity of the internet to drive decision making and enrollment.
Stop using spreadsheets for the most important thing the school has to do, staying fully funded. Call us to learn how we can let you get back to work and deliver certainty to your schools enrollment. |
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Do you already have an electronic lottery system?
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Call us and learn how you can use a superior solution that meets all your needs, plus more and puts money back into your budget to spend on your students and teachers.
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