New York Department of Education provides e-mail adressess

Contributing to better education is very often now more a question of imagination than financial ressources. The New York Department of Education set to give kida and parents e-mail addresses. The objective: parent engagement, keeping in contact, creating communities, avoiding the gap between haves and have-nots.
If one consider the funcitonality of Gmail (and other free E-mail accounts), a lot of problems and information deficiencies can be adresses. It does not need a lot. There is more communication, more problem solving, more involvement. A small solution with a potential big impact, even if considering that the change in daily routines is extremely hard work.