Last summer, my district, Cambridge Public Schools in Massachusetts, was looking for a way to consolidate school-home communications to a single technology platform across all 18 schools. We’d been using a number of different applications to manage our communications, none of which met our quality or responsiveness expectations.
We also wanted to be able to automatically translate the correspondence into different languages, including Amharic, Bengali, and Arabic. Our families speak 37 different languages, and while some translation was available in our previous tool, what we really needed was a communications system that came with automatic, built-in translation capabilities.
