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Palm Beach County making it easy to get school information on the web
Sun Sentinel — West Palm Beach, FL - December 23, 2004
With a new, easy-to remember schools Web site, there will be no excuses for parents not to e-mail a teacher, help with FCAT prep or start planning for college.
Even if they don't have a computer.
The Palm Beach County School District has begun taking care of that, too, by working with the city of West Palm Beach and other cities to set up free computer access in community centers.
The Web site, unveiled Wednesday, makes it easier to find school information -- including calendars, grading policies and school Web pages -- in a single location, www.palmbeachlearns.org.
School technology experts decided the district's frequently visited Web site, www.palmbeach.k12.fl.us, was cluttered with information for administrators and too difficult for parents to navigate. The new site also can be accessed at www.palmbeachlearns.com.
The site comes as the district is trying to make Internet access available to families who cannot afford computers. The city of West Palm Beach plans to offer help for the site at six community centers and its library.
Parents will learn to search a Web site called Edline that details their children's progress in school and search World Book Online to help with research projects. A link called TumbleBook Library allows elementary school children to hear a book read aloud and paced to their reading level.
The district also is working with the city of Boynton Beach and the Children's Place at HomeSafe, a center for abused children, to make computer access easier for constituents.
About half of Palm Beach County's children live in poverty, and many have no access to computers unless they are at school, Superintendent Art Johnson said.
"Computers are not a priority in low-income families," Urban League President Patrick Franklin said. He said the league plans to begin a survey next month to find out who has computers and who needs them.
Theresa Hamilton of West Palm Beach, who is raising two grandchildren, said she was thrilled to find out that her grandchildren's teachers at U.B. Kinsey Elementary School had their own Web sites.
"The more ways you have of finding out what's going on, the better," she said.
Lois Solomon can be reached at lsolomon@sun-sentinel.com or 561-243-6536.