Tonight: Film Director Bob Bowdon Speaks in Louisville, Kentucky at National School Choice Week Event

(PRWEB) January 24, 2012

Louisville-area residents will welcome award-winning film director Bob Bowdon -- the founder of Choice Media -- to discuss the national school choice movement during the first-ever National School Choice Week event in the state of Kentucky. The event will be held at 6:30 p.m. on Tuesday, Jan. 24.

The program features clips from Bowdon?s education documentary ?The Cartel.? The event will begin at 6:30 p.m. at the Cathedral of the Assumption Undercroft, located at 433 S. 5 Street in Louisville.

National School Choice Week (Jan. 22-28, 2012) shines a spotlight on the need for effective options for all children, including great public schools, public charter schools, private schools, virtual schools and homeschooling. Planned by a diverse and bipartisan coalition of citizens and organizations from across the country, National School Choice Week will reach hundreds of communities and tens of millions of Americans in 2012.

"It is essential that citizens in Louisville and across the country realize the benefits of school choice, and Bob Bowdon -- after going behind-the-scenes to produce 'The Cartel' -- is the perfect person to highlight the challenges that advocates of reform face when they push back against the entrenched educational status quo," said Andrew Campanella, vice president of public affairs for National School Choice Week.

For more information, please visit http://www.SchoolChoiceWeek.com.

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VIP Tone VoIP Solution Deployed in Another California School District

Indian Wells, CA (PRWEB) October 9, 2007

VIP Tone today announced the award of a multi-year contract for VIP PBX? services with Calaveras Unified School District (CUSD). This is the third contract VIP Tone has been awarded with Northern California school districts in the last 12 months. Hayward Unified School District and Morgan Hill Unified School District are currently using the VIP PBX services from VIP Tone. As an integral part of their VoIP project, CUSD is deploying IP phones to all of the district locations and is also upgrading the district wide network infrastructure while deploying a wireless network in all district locations.

VIP PBX is the first telephony and unified messaging solution designed specifically for schools. It offers an innovative, reliable Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) communications platform delivering voice, video, messaging and collaboration services to replace old telephony systems.

"We are excited about our partnerships with these school districts," said Robert Iskander, VIP Tone's founder and CEO. "We are confident that the VIP PBX services will provide these districts with a significant return on investment in addition to improved communications services."

While connecting all schools in a district into a single, converged communications switch, VIP PBX offers support for a unified dialing plan between multiple school locations with enhanced collaboration tools to each user offering un-matched reliability and emergency response at each school regardless of their location. The VIP PBX service reduces initial capital outlay for perpetual software licenses and system integration costs with a monthly subscription fee based on a Software-as-a-Service delivery model. This saves school districts and regional education centers thousands of dollars on their communication costs every month.

"The use of VoIP enables substantial telecom cost savings, freeing up funds that may be reinvested in student programs," said Jim Frost, Superintendent, Calaveras Unified School District. "With VIP PBX we will improve communications and productivity for district employees while improving our communications with the community as well."

About VIP Tone, Inc.

VIP Tone helps educators create world-class school environments with one integrated solution for their learning, communication and collaboration needs. Our product set consists of VIP PBX?, an IP telephony communication and messaging system; School MATRIX?, an education resource planning (ERP) solution; and the EduTone Appliance?, a pre-integrated K-20 educational software and content services delivery infrastructure that features an enterprise portal with ID management and automated provisioning technology. We serve over 3,600,000 students and over 100,000 teachers in over 7,000 schools around the globe. VIP Tone is a privately held company headquartered in Alameda, California. For more information, visit the VIP Tone web site at http://www.viptone.com.

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