CULVER CITY, Calif. (October 5th, 2015) — Education technology leader XAP Corporation announced the launch of MSChoices.com, a comprehensive statewide academic and career planning solution for the Mississippi Department of Education (DOE). MS Choices leads students as they build meaningful education and life plans, and helps counselors and teachers generate powerful reports to guide their programs and track student outcomes.

Built on XAP’s robust Transitions platform, MS Choices offers engaging features and tools to keep pace with the increasing needs and expectations of students, parents and adult learners in the workforce. Counselors and educators seeking information and access to resources for college and career planning can use MS Choices – at no cost to their school!

Key for the Mississippi Department of Education is the new Individual Career and Academic Planning (iCAP) tool. Mandated by the State of Mississippi, the iCAP guides students through the process of meeting state requirements while providing educators with powerful reporting functionality.

“The State of Mississippi is pleased to have partnered with XAP to launch MS Choices which provides exciting new features for students, counselors, teachers and parents.  The collaboration with local business and industry, community colleges, institutions of higher learning and state agencies gives our state a wonderful tool to help guide our students to a successful outcome in today’s 21st century economy” said Mike Mulvihill, Director, Office of Career and Technical Education with the Mississippi Department of Education.

“This is an important step forward for Mississippi, its 152 school districts and nearly 500,000 students,” said Eddie Monnier, Chief Executive Officer of XAP. “We’re proud to continue partnering with the Mississippi DOE to help the state achieve important goals in college readiness and workforce development by delivering important programs for career exploration and education planning.”

About XAP Corporation

XAP is the industry leader in providing students and adults with online tools to explore careers and discover, plan, and apply to colleges and universities. XAP’s products are used by thousands of K-12 institutions, and colleges and universities in the United States and Canada.

Media Contact

XAP Corporation
Susan San Martin, 424-750-3917
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