Tanya Kerstiens Rowe
Bellingham School District
voice: (360) 676-6520
fax: (360) 676-2793
1306 Dupont Street
Bellingham, WA 98225-3118
trowe@bham.wednet.edu
The Center for Digital Education and National School Boards Association have selected the Bellingham School District Board of Directors as a 2006 Digital School Boards Survey winner, ranking Bellingham in the top 10 nationally of school districts of similar size.
The Digital School Boards Survey examines how school boards and their districts are applying information technology to better engage local communities and constituents, and improve service delivery and quality of education to public schools.
Criteria for the award included school boards' online presence, technology applications that allow the public to interact with school board members, access to information such as school board calendars, policies and agendas, and technology advancements in the school board meeting rooms.
Bellingham School Board meeting dates, agendas and agenda item materials, policies and procedures, biography and contact information are easily accessible to the public from the district's homepage at http://www.bham.wednet.edu/district/board.htm
For a complete list of winners, please visit the Center for Digital Education Web site at http://www.centerdigitaled.com/
The Center for Digital Education is a division of e.Republic, Inc., and is a premier resource for technology policy and utilization in K-12 and higher education. Founded in 1940, the National School Boards Association is a not-for-profit federation of state associations of school boards representing 95,000 local school board members throughout the United States.
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