With the Connect-ED service, our schools can send periodic and personalized voice messages to parents within minutes. The Connect-ED service will be used to complement our emergency preparedness procedures and to inform parents of upcoming school events such as statewide testing, fund-raisers and PTA meetings, and daily attendance messages. The launch of the Connect-ED service will begin March 1, 2007. More information about the Connect-ED service may be found at http://www.NTIGroup.com