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Ascendant Facility Partners is an SIPC Member who specializes in helping Illinois upgrade and modernize their existing school buildings, using guaranteed TS energy savings to help fund the improvement project. Ascendant’s extensive experience provides a unique set of skills and experience necessary to design and execute a fully-integrated solution that is specific to your situation.
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The BuyBoard National Purchasing Cooperative helps save time and money while purchasing the products school systems use every day. Would you like to save time and money? BuyBoard is an online purchasing cooperative designed to streamline the purchasing process and help its members make confident buying decisions. Contracts and vendors awarded through BuyBoard have been competitively procured, to assist members with compliance with local and state procurement requirements and a documented audit trail. Transparency in the procurement process is treated with a high degree of focus and is of paramount importance. All vendors are treated on equal terms and are on the same plane of competition.
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CrisisGo delivers technology that supports schools and districts' efforts to prevent, prepare for, respond to and recover from critical situations. The CrisisGo incident management platform can be used to digitize safety response plans and support threat assessment teams. The system include instant emergency alerts, communication, status checks and reunification tools. CrisisGo reduces response times and drives efficiency and situational awareness to save time in an emergency. CrisisGo also allows your students, teachers, staff, parents, and first responders to communicate about safety-related issues at any given moment by giving them an easy and clear pathway to safety. CrisisGo make parents part of the reunification process from the start, with real-time communication about each child throughout critical events.
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Journey12 is an education equity initiative with a 3-pronged mission: 1.) building deeper engagement between families, schools, and communities through professional storytelling, branding, and media leverage. 2.) providing unparalleled post-secondary transition support through college admissions strategies, skilled-trades insights, and expert consultative guidance. 3.) Helping inspire young learners to explore post-secondary possibilities and passions by facilitating interaction between them and a broad range of practitioners in today's highest growth career clusters.
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Finalsite has grown to be the trusted education technology partner of over 7,000 schools and districts in nearly every U.S. state and 119 countries across the globe. Finalsite has over 500 employees and has expanded to offer clients a full suite of software and services to help schools manage their website, marketing, communications, and enrollment.
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Franczek has one of the largest teams of K-12 education lawyers in Illinois. The law firm works with school districts, schools, and cooperatives of all sizes—ranging from hundreds to hundreds of thousands of students—in all areas of the State. Franczek attorneys form a unique partnership with the schools they serve, working with school and governing board members and administrators to find solutions to difficult problems and provide practical, clear, and comprehensive advice. Franczek’s unique position as a leader in all aspects of education, labor and employment, and immigration law allows Franczek to offer unparalleled depth and experience at a consistent and competitive cost.
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Horace Mann is an insurance and financial services company that is committed to helping educators and all school employees achieve financial success at every stage of their lives. We also understand the importance of staying within a budget and help our customers identify resources within their existing budgets to direct to their financial goals. With strategies to reduce or eliminate student loan debt, ways to secure classroom funding without using their own money and insurance program reviews to find savings, we work to maximize their hard-earned dollars and help develop a path to a successful financial future.
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Kings Financial Consulting offers advisory services, including Bond Financing, Referendum Assistance, Levy Preparation and Cash Flow Projections. Kings specializes in District self-purchase of Bonds for investment income and assistance with Local Sales of Bonds to your community investors.
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Sibme AI is an AI-powered coaching and professional learning platform that helps educators get better—faster—using real classroom evidence.
It analyzes videos, audio, and instructional artifacts to generate actionable insights, saving teachers and leaders time while strengthening reflection, feedback, and instructional growth. Sibme
AI helps school leaders streamline classroom walkthroughs and
observations by capturing, analyzing, and organizing instructional
evidence in real time. It enables administrators to deliver timely,
meaningful feedback and coaching to teachers—improving instructional
quality while significantly reducing the time spent on evaluation and
follow-up.
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A leading partner to educational institutions of all sizes and at all levels, Stifel’s Education Group is proud to provide market-driven guidance and capital-raising services to schools seeking the resources necessary to better serve their students. With an in-depth understanding of the unique needs of public schools, Stifel ranks as the top bond underwriter for K-12 public schools nationwide.
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Quest Food Management Services was founded in 1985 in Lombard, Illinois, with the goal of providing fresh, made from scratch food and intensely personal service. Today, the company has grown to over $75 million in annual revenue through its partnerships with over 115 accounts in the Midwest. Quest Food Management Services provides services to business & industry, higher education, conference centers, and the K-12 segment. It has a depth of experience in facility and equipment design and construction, and offers a wealth of expertise in nutrition, marketing, food safety and sanitation, staff management and community building.
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