Emergency Messaging System | Parent Notification for Schools

White Plains, NY - Keeping families informed in an increasingly uncertain world is a top priority for everyone at K12 Alerts®. With increasing budget concerns in New York City and New York State, K12 Alerts helped Alfred E. Smith High School in NYC inform the community about community meetings, DOE meetings and parent support rallies in minutes through automated telephone calls. The outpouring of concern from the community is keeping the vocational school open and represents a milestone in DOE policy. The school has 1,100 students attending its vocational programs and is a vital educational component in the South Bronx.

The school in the Bronx was one of seven that the Department of Education had marked for closure this year. Alfred E. Smith represents the first time the NYC Department of Education has removed a school from the chopping block without other intervention. The DOE held a public hearing on the school closing.

"We cite our community support and success in large part to our use of K12 Alerts, we are able to send thousands of voice messages to parents in minutes", said Rafael Guzman, Assistant Principal. We are able to schedule routine meeting announcements or send out important notices to parents in a moments notice," said Guzman.

"We are committed to helping schools in NYC keep parents and the community informed, in addition we are helping schools eliminate paper communications and postal costs through automated telephone calls, email and Text-to-Cell notifications," said Gregory Bender, President and CEO of K12 Alerts.

About K12 Alerts
K12 Alerts® was established in 2001 after 9/11 to find a better way to communicate with large groups of people during a crisis. K12 Alerts® services NYC schools like Alfred E. Smith, The Bronx High School of Science, Aviation High School and many others throughout NYC and the nation. The K12 Alerts platform is a Software as a Service (SaaS) solution created to enable school administrators to effortlessly record, send, and track targeted messages to groups in minutes. K12 Alerts has a proprietary Parent My Account® portal that is customized for each school where parents and staff members can maintain/update their emergency phone numbers, email and Text-to-Cell messaging numbers for emergency and routine messaging. K12 Alerts is based in White Plains, New York.