Company: PowerSchool
Nomination Submitted by: We
Company Description: PowerSchool is the leading provider of cloud-based software for K-12 education in North America. Its mission is to power the education ecosystem with unified technology that helps educators and students realize their full potential, in their way. PowerSchool supports over 45 million students and 12,000+ districts, schools, and other education institutions in over 90 countries.
Nomination Category: New Product & Service Categories - Education
Nomination Sub Category: Education Platform for PK-20
 Nomination Title: PowerSchool's Unified K-12 Solutions
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- If you are providing written answers for your submission, you must provide an answer to this first question: If this is a brand-new product, state the date on which it was released. If this is a new version of an existing product, state the date on which the update was released:
August 2022
- If you are providing written answers for your submission, you must provide an answer to this second question: Describe the features, functions, and benefits of the nominated product or service (up to 350 words):
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PowerSchool is the leading provider of cloud-based software for K-12 education in North America. Its mission is to power the education ecosystem with mission-critical technology that helps educators and students realize their full potential, in their way. PowerSchool connects students, teachers, administrators, and parents, with the shared goal of improving student outcomes. From the office to the classroom to the home, it helps schools and districts efficiently manage state reporting and related compliance, special education, finance, human resources, talent, registration, attendance, funding, learning, instruction, grading, assessments and analytics in one unified platform.
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PowerSchool supports over 50 million students globally and more than 15,000 customers, including over 90 of the top 100 districts by student enrollment in the United States, and sells solutions in over 90 countries.
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Since becoming one of the first edtech companies to IPO (NYSE: PWSC) in 2021 and celebrating 25 years as a company in 2022, PowerSchool has continued to invest in innovation, provide superior support to over 15,000 customers, and support the critical needs of schools, districts, and users. The education industry is in the early stages of digital transformation, which will drive efficiencies for administrators, empower educators, unlock student potential, and contribute to a quality of education that is so vital to society. PowerSchool is focused on leading that transformation.
By integrating best-in-class software, PowerSchool brings together the data and people from across all areas in the education ecosystem to support the development of the whole child. Only PowerSchool provides a comprehensive suite of solutions with deepening integration that schools and districts need to maintain a single source of record with built-in data intelligence to better support students and staff.
PowerSchool has invested over 25 years in building and maintaining its solutions, which represent industry-leading innovation made possible by relationships and open dialogue with educators and district leaders. PowerSchool helps schools and districts address the challenges they face today by offering [REDACTED FOR PUBLICATION] solutions that provide deeper, more actionable insights to support the whole child, industry-leading data security for reliable defense against K-12 cyber threats, and HR tools to support teacher retention and training. PowerSchool is dedicated to continuing to meet educators’ and education leaders’ needs and set them up for a successful future.
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To better understand how educators and district administrators plan to navigate the seismic shifts and trends shaping this school year, PowerSchool examined 25 mid-sized to large districts’ strategic plans from across the country, had in-depth conversations with over 75 practitioners and leaders, and a national survey of more than 3,500 educators. Key insights from this research were compiled into the 2022 Education Focus Report: https://www.powerschool.com/edtech-focus-report-2022/ This report is just one way that PowerSchool understands the current education landscape, the needs of educators, and how to best support them. The 2023 Education Focus Report is available here: https://www.powerschool.com/edtech-focus-report-2023/
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