Gokid Connect for Charter Schools District
Providing a more personalized transportation experience for Charter Schools District
Parent-driven carpool solutions offer a promising alternative to traditional school transportation models, particularly for charter schools located in urban areas or far from students’ homes.
By organizing carpool groups, parents can save money, and provide a more personalized transportation experience for their children.
Additionally, parent-driven carpools can help reduce absenteeism, combat traffic congestion and address safety concerns by allowing parents to carefully select parents they want to carpool with.
The Benefits of School Carpooling for District Charter Schools
A Safe Ride Alternative
Rising cost of busing? School bus driver shortage? School carpooling is the affordable alternative, And carpools are driven by the safest volunteer drivers: your school parents.
Reduce traffic
Fewer cars will make the school entry safer, neighbors happier and reduce your staff burden in the morning and at dismissal time. We provide the data to prove it!
Lower absenteeism
One of the biggest factors affecting school districts this year? The increase in chronicle absent students. A safe transportation alternative especially for one-car household will get kids to school.
GoKid Connect for charter schools district is an affordable carpool program licensed on an annual basis
How GoKid Connect works
After signing our school district , you will get access to your own school districts admin dashboard showing one or multiple schools in your district.
Easily upload as CSV file or let us help you and connect with your Student Information System and sent out the invitation to your schools families. Families can always opt-out!
After registering with Gokid, school families will find other parents that live close by on a map view. Parents self-manage the connections with personalized invitations.
Parents will invite other school families via GoKid Connect and can manage their carpools with our award-winning apps. Parents have questions? The support is on us!
In you school admin board you will get access to all the good data: # of carpools set up, CO2 savings and traffic emission.
Easy Carpool Management for Families
After connecting with other parents, your school families will have access to all free and premium features of our award-winning apps to manage their trips.
Custom notifications, alerts for the parent who is driving, live-tracking of vehicles and GPS are all included for free if your school signs up.
Smiles guaranteed
World class service
Privacy, Data Security and Liability
Your data, protected
School parents expect that their data is protected at all times. Gokid will not share any personal information before parents agree 1:1 with another family to carpool.
Parental control
Parents decide if they want to participate in the school carpool program. They can choose to opt-out at any point. Schools can implement a double opt-out.
Liability
Before joining the school carpool program, parents will accept our terms of service. Under these terms, they accept all liability for participating in carpooling.
Meet Our Team
Our international team has a combined 50 years of experience building technology-enabled businesses. In June 2016, GoKid was accepted as one of twelve companies (out of over 500 applicants) into Techstars Mobility in Detroit, Michigan.
Felice Wilson
West Coast Sales & Customer Success
Kathie Fording
East Coast
Himanshu Rana
Backend Developer
Sachin Siwal
Technical Product Manager
Arushi Gupta
Designer
Anuradha Sahu
Quality Control
Gautam Malhotra
Software Engeneer
Dr. Stefanie Lemcke
CEO
Sounds great… what about the cost?
We get it. Charter schools are often overdelivering, but working with a tight budget. Our program is affordable, with under $ 10 per student and year, and we will give you a 15% discount on our regular price list. But, if budgeting for the coming school year is a challenge, apply to become part of our charter partner program funded by the Shatter Foundation. Gokid is proud to have been funded by the Shatter
Connect with us
Join the growing community of Charter schools who are making their school transportation safer, and more cost efficient. With GoKid Connect, getting kids to school carpooling has never been easier and more affordable.
