Access 4 Learning Welcomes West's Education Group to the Community!

WASHINGTON - July 5, 2016 - PRLog -- The diverse A4L Community brings together thousands of educational organizations globally addressing the safe management, movement and utilization of educational data in a platform independent and vendor neutral manner.

Best known for its SchoolMessenger products, West's Education group is a leading communications software provider to tens of thousands of schools across North America, simplifying parent and community engagement.  As part of its membership in the A4L Community, West's Education group has committed to serve in a leadership role on the North America Management Board assisting in governing the A4L Community and ensuring the Community's focus remains on driving the adoption and implementation of interoperable open standards throughout the education marketplace.

"We know how important it is, as schools increasingly rely on digital data, to have strong standards so that data can be intelligently and securely used across applications," said Robert Iskander, general manager, West's Education group. "We hope to play a significant role in ensuring districts, schools, teachers, students, and parents see fewer obstacles to using data to support learning and engagement."

"We are delighted that West's Education group has decided to become an active part of the A4L Community's wide breadth of education leaders and marketplace providers", states Larry Fruth II, Ph.D., CEO/Executive Director, A4L Community.  "We look forward to leveraging benefits on both sides by their involvement and are encouraged by their commitment to the Community and the promotion of open standards interoperability."

About West's Education Group
West's Education group, part of West Corporation, is the trusted provider of SchoolMessenger solutions. Thousands of schools and other educational institutions in all 50 U.S. states and Canada depend on SchoolMessenger products and services. From notifications and websites to custom mobile apps and social media, school leaders have relied on the SchoolMessenger platform since 1999 to engage with their communities in multiple languages and on any device.  For further information, visit http://www.schoolmessenger.com

About the Access 4 Learning Community
There is no other global community made up of educational policymakers, marketplace product and service providers and the customers they serve, collaborating daily to address real word learning information and resource issues.

The Access 4 Learning (A4L) Community, previously the SIF Association, is a unique, non-profit collaboration composed of schools, districts, local authorities, states, US and International Ministries of Education, software vendors and consultants who collectively address all aspects of learning information management and access to support learning.  The A4L Community has united these education technology end users and providers in an unprecedented effort to give teachers more time to do what they do best: teach. For further information, visit https://www.A4L.org