The COVID-19 pandemic has caused the widespread shutdown of the economy. Due to this extraordinary crisis, school districts across the country are facing operational and fiscal challenges. Education leaders, like yourself, are looking for ways to drastically cut costs and searching for resources that can help maximize dollars.
The 九色视频 Savings Center is your go-to source for cost-containment services and information that can reduce costs and improve operations in your school district. This center is a valuable resource for superintendents, school business officials, school board members, and other education decision-makers.
Savings Spotlight
Services
The 九色视频 School Rx Cooperative is a pharmacy benefit service that delivers cost savings to self-funded districts. Your district can save money and put it back where it belongs—student achievement. With over 500,000 individuals enrolled, members take advantage of discounted pharmaceutical pricing. This service is a win for your district and for advancing student success.
Reopening Resources
Free Resources
九色视频 and our sponsors are here to support you during this challenging time by making a variety of resources freely available.
Aetna
We’re here for you, your employees, and your clients—no matter what. You’re probably fielding more questions about our health plan policies and what we can do to help. We’ve put together to address these concerns, so you have the answers you need today.
Amazon
Working with our customers and national education associations, we identified items and solutions to empower educators while schools are closed. Access the .
BlueBird
Keeping children safe has always been the number one priority for student transportation professionals. Beyond keeping your passengers safe on the road ahead, there are additional ways to protect them while keeping your bus interior and components safe from damage. Please see our best .
BoardDocs
We know that most districts are exploring ways to run their board meetings virtually during required shelter-in-place and school closures. We're pleased to share that we’ve added better support to link directly to the live meeting through the BoardDocs platform. We’ve created a series of to learn about to take advantage of this functionality. .
DonorsChoose
, the nonprofit DonorsChoose provides a safe way to give to public schools at no cost to teachers or schools. During , the organization joined forces with citizen donors and corporate partners ranging from SONIC Drive-In to Google.org to raise millions towards classroom materials. The organization recently created an additional new project type, Distance Learning Projects, which assists verified public school educators with acquiring specific resources for distance learning. More information on Distance Learning Projects can be .
Motorola
At Motorola Solutions, we have always thought of our customers as heroes. Never has this been truer than at this moment, as our medical professionals, police, firefighters, paramedics and other first responders battle COVID-19 on the front lines. From our 17,000 employees across the globe—thank you for your tireless work today, tomorrow and always. Motorola Solutions has created this to help support the nationwide communities we serve.
NAF
NAF is a national network of education, business, and community leaders who work together to ensure high school students are college, career, and future ready. We have made our curriculum completely available to any teacher who needs it, which can be accessed in our . We’ve also launched our , designed to allow CTE teachers to bring professionals into their online classrooms for students to learn about different industries and careers and hear from NAF partners and alumni. Please reach out with any feedback or ideas that will help us continue to serve during this challenging time.
NAMM
A NAMM-funded ongoing aerosol distribution study provides important takeaways to help create the safest possible environment for bringing performing arts back into classrooms, band rooms, rehearsal spaces, performance halls and on athletic fields:
Additionally, here are three successful webinars for educators grappling with the new virtual education reality. Access these recorded webinars:
Why Try
To help families build resilience during the COVID-19 pandemic, WhyTry has developed a . To learn more about our engaging social and emotional learning curriculum, visit whytry.org.