SchoolKidz provides two profitable applications—Teacher Tailored and Kits for Kidz—for entry to customized faculty provides, backpacks and private wellness bundles
CHICAGO, IL — November 4, 2022 — School Specialty, LLC., a number one supplier of studying environments, provides and curriculum supplies for the pre Okay-12 training market, has acquired Chicago-based SchoolKidz, a supplier of faculty provide kitting options for elementary and center faculty college students, sometimes in partnership with parent-teacher (PTO/PTA) and charitable organizations. The transaction permits School Specialty to make the SchoolKidz model of training and wellness kits extra accessible to highschool youngsters all through the nation.
Since 1995, SchoolKidz has sourced, assembled and marketed kits consisting of faculty and private care provides, serving greater than 500,000 college students in 2022. As a results of the acquisition, SchoolKidz is now working underneath the School Specialty umbrella. According to School Specialty, the expertise for current prospects is anticipated to stay seamless.
School Specialty President and CEO Ryan Bohr acknowledged, “The acquisition of SchoolKidz enables us to significantly expand our support of students and educators across the country.” He continued, “Our customers are faced with unprecedented staffing and operational challenges and have a greater need for efficient, bundled solutions than ever before. This acquisition directly enhances our ability to provide simplified solutions to educators and further their efforts to achieve greater equity and accessibility to the students who need it most.”
President of SchoolKidz, Jim Mulder added, “At SchoolKidz, we have worked hard to drive engagement and enhance our product offering and now we have a significantly larger platform to continue these efforts. School Specialty has unmatched school relationships along with an extensive product portfolio comprised of proprietary and leading national brands that will enable us to greatly increase what we can offer to schools and non-profit organizations.”
About the SchoolKidz Programs
SchoolKidz provides two main applications:
- Teacher Tailored: The SchoolKidz Teacher Tailored Program has offered thousands and thousands of faculty provide kits to oldsters and serviced 1000’s of colleges nationwide for the previous 25 years. This group works with Parent Teacher Organizations/Associations (PTO/PTA) to develop personalized lists of faculty provides, then sources the merchandise, and assembles them into branded equipment bins for college students. This program simplifies the back-to-school provide course of for folks whereas fundraising for the colleges.
- Kits for Kidz: Serves faculty districts in addition to an array of non-profit organizations, together with care businesses, faith-based organizations, and reduction teams. Organizations choose Kits for Kidz to assist present important objects for each academic and humanitarian functions, reminiscent of faculty provides, hygiene merchandise and clothes for the youngsters they serve.
About School Specialty, Inc.
With a 60-year legacy, School Specialty is a number one supplier of complete studying environments for the pre Okay-12 training market within the U.S. and Canada. School Specialty believes each scholar can flourish in an surroundings the place they’re engaged and impressed to be taught and develop. In assist of this imaginative and prescient to remodel greater than school rooms by enhancing studying outcomes and district efficiency, the corporate applies its unmatched group of subject-matter specialists and designs, manufactures and distributes a broad assortment of title model and proprietary merchandise to ship upon its distinctive worth proposition. This contains important classroom provides, furnishings and design providers, academic expertise, science curriculum, supplemental studying assets, skilled improvement, funding help and extra. For extra data, go to www.schoolspecialty.com.