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Edupoint Educational Systems Announces that they have been selected by Mesa Public Schools to Provide a Web-based Student Information System

Edupoint is developing GENESIS™, a General Education Student Information System, for Mesa Public Schools and will be offering it widely starting later this year.

Edupoint Educational Systems is pleased to announce that they have been selected by Mesa Public Schools to provide its next generation web-based General Education Student Information System: GENESIS. Edupoint was selected by Mesa, one of the largest K-12 school districts in the nation with over 75,000 students, because "Edupoint offered a strong record of developing Student Administrative Systems, and because of its proven record of meeting Mesa Public Schools student administrative requirements over the past ten years," according to Robert Weathers, President and founder of Edupoint Educational Systems. Weathers adds, "the most important factor in Mesa's selection of Edupoint, was our offer to enter into a full partnership with Mesa to develop this highly sophisticated system. We are training Mesa technical staff in the use of its web development tool, Revelation Technology™ (RT)." According to Tom McGrew, one of the designers of RT, "RT allows our client districts to modify and enhance GENESIS in-house to meet their specific district requirements."

Mesa Public Schools put their trust in Weathers and his team previously when they selected the SASI* Student Information System over 10 years ago. Mesa's confidence in the ability of Edupoint's technical team to develop and deliver GENESIS was based on this long-standing relationship. "Our technical team created the SASIxp Student Information System," said Weathers. "We were the first to develop a Microsoft* Windows* based system, the first to feature drag and drop technology, and the first to support multiple platforms and data-bases. We set the standard for Student Information Systems, and with over 20,000 installed school sites, SASIxp is also the most widely installed SIS in the nation."

Mesa Public Schools selection of SASI as their SIS administrative solution in 1991 was the most important event in the success of Weather's prior company, Macro Educational Systems. Weather's recalls "When Mesa selected us in 1991 we were a small company and we had to devote every resource in the company to meet their very ambitious goals. As a result Mesa Public Schools became our strongest advocate and most powerful reference. After the success at Mesa, Macro Educational systems went on to win major SASI SIS contracts at Long Beach Unified and Houston Independent School Districts. By 1997, when Macro was acquired by National Computer Systems, we were well on the way of dominating the K-12 SIS market."

Edupoint is counting on the partnership with Mesa Public Schools to once again serve as their springboard to success in the K-12 market. The core technical team at Edupoint has been together for over 10 years and has the technical tools and expertise to succeed. Edupoint's goal with GENESIS is nothing less than to once again set the technical standard for the new generation of web-based Student Information Systems.

GENESIS is currently under development. The Elementary school modules are scheduled for beta test in January 2004. RT is the foundation for Edupoint's GENESEA Special Education software, which is currently deployed. Edupoint will showcase GENESIS and GENESEA at the CETPA conference in Santa Barbara in November 2003.

About Edupoint
Edupoint is in the business to develop and support K-12 student administrative products. At Edupoint we believe in creating a partnership rather than a dependency relationship with school districts. What truly sets Edupoint apart from the crowd is that this philosophy is reflected in our technology. Edupoint understands that school districts today face many challenges, including the need to manage change, the need to reduce training and overall costs, to extend the lifespan of applications and to leverage the best resources to do these things. The technology that Edupoint has developed in RT, GENESIS and GENESPED enables school districts to meet these challenges successfully.

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