Statewide Agreement Allows Texas K-12 Students, Teachers to Purchase Microsoft Software at Significant Discount
Posted on: Thursday, 22 June 2006, 12:00 CDT
DALLAS, June 22 /PRNewswire/ -- Students, teachers and school staff members at K-12 public schools throughout the state of Texas may now purchase personal copies of popular Microsoft software packages at significant savings through the Microsoft Student Select Program.
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This program is made available by a licensing agreement between Microsoft and The Cooperative Purchasing Network (TCPN) and administered through Journey Education Marketing, Inc. (JourneyEd) and Educational Resources. As a purchasing cooperative, TCPN provides school districts opportunities for greater efficiency and economy in acquiring goods and services.
The Student Select program enables grades K through 12 teachers, students and their parents to buy single Microsoft products for home use at a discount of up to 85 percent. The program makes it easy, accessible and affordable for teachers and students to work on school projects at home on the computer, using the same Microsoft programs used at their schools.
The program currently offers 10 Microsoft software products at savings up to 85% off suggested retail pricing. The program pricing ranges from $79.98 for the productivity suite Microsoft Office 2003 Professional to $24.98 for the note taking software Microsoft OneNote 2003.
Journey Education Marketing, Inc. (JourneyEd.com) is the leading provider of application software and technology products to college students, but has now partnered with Educational Resources, a Large Area Reseller for Microsoft, to provide the Microsoft Student Select program in 10 states, including Texas, to the K-12 market. The companies announced their partnership in early 2006.
K-12 students and teachers can place orders online at http://www.journeyed.com/ER . The online store is operated by Journey Education (JourneyEd). JourneyEd operates thousands of online student software stores for schools and college bookstores nationwide.
School staff, faculty, students and their parents simply choose a state, a county and a school district to begin using the eStore at http://www.journeyed.com/ER . Teachers, students and parents in Texas are eligible to make purchases under the program with no individual enrollment, membership or registration fees. The Student Select program allows students, their parents, teachers and school staff to purchase one copy per product version per student. JourneyEd also handles the entire purchase transaction, including shipping the order directly to the customer.
JourneyEd also processes the academic verification that is required by Microsoft, to ensure that only qualified Texas K-12 students, teachers and staff are ordering the specially priced software. There is no charge for these services provided by Educational Resources and JourneyEd.
About JourneyEd
Journey Education Marketing, Inc. (JourneyEd) based in Dallas, is the leading multi-channel software marketer to the K-12 and post-secondary academic markets, which include students, faculty, staff, educational institutions and public school districts. Operating more than 7,500 online stores (eStores), JourneyEd offers thousands of market-leading software and technology products, including those published by Microsoft, Adobe and Macromedia, at discounts of up to 85 percent off retail prices to verified academic buyers. For more information on JourneyEd, visit http://www.journeyed.com/ER or call 1-800-874-9001.
Contact: Jeff Durosko JourneyEd Public Relations 1-800-874-9001 ext. 1685 jdurosko@journeyed.com
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Journey Education Marketing, Inc.
CONTACT: Jeff Durosko of JourneyEd Public Relations, +1-800-874-9001,ext. 1685, or jdurosko@journeyed.com
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