WordPress for Schools


Speaker: Cameron Barrett
Track: Business

Learn how Newark Public Schools (NJ’s largest school district – 40,000 students; 70 schools) cut their annual web site technology budget in half by migrating to WordPress from a closed-source, proprietary, expensive, vendor-controlled SaaS CMS. Hear stories from the trenches about budget battles, angry/clueless technology vendors and frustrated administrators from one guy with a vision to disrupt the market and bring better web site technology to our public schools using a WordPress-Powered SaaS called SchoolPress. Case studies will be presented for three districts (2 in NJ, 1 in TX) that migrated to WordPress.

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Cameron Barrett

I design and build online communities and engagement-heavy web sites. I have designed private online properties for the U.S. Army, jetsetters, snowboarders, Presidential campaigns and political wonks. Led UX at Teach for America. I am now fulfilling my vision of helping 14,000+ public school districts migrate off horrible, expensive SaaS products and onto WordPress - saving millions of taxpayer dollars per year.

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