KELYA Kelly Services Inc

Kelly Services Now Providing Substitute Teachers in 38 States -Provo School District in Utah Signs Up Kelly Educational Staffing- TROY, Mich., Nov. 4 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Kelly Educational Staffing, a service line of staffing provider Kelly Services, today announced it has been selected by Provo School District in Provo, Utah to provide substitute teachers to six of its 20 schools on a pilot basis. Provo School District is the first in Utah to work with Kelly Educational Staffing, marking the 38th state where Kelly has won a contract to provide substitute teachers. (Logo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/19991208/KELLYLOGO ) Kelly Educational Staffing currently serves more than 1,400 schools in the United States and the United Kingdom. Kelly launched its educational staffing program nationally in 1999 and expanded the service to the United Kingdom in 2002. "We relieve educators of the daily burden around recruiting, interviewing, preparing and scheduling substitute teachers," said Teresa Setting, vice president, Kelly Educational Staffing. "Students are our true customers, and assisting their achievement with quality substitute teachers is our commitment when their regular teacher needs to be absent for professional or personal reasons." Standard features of Kelly Educational Staffing include recruiting, screening, orientation/training, scheduling, quality control and retention of substitute teachers. Kelly assumes all employer obligations related to a school's substitute teacher program, including payroll taxes, worker's compensation and unemployment compensation. Substitute teachers from Kelly meet state and local certification requirements for any K-12 teaching situation in a public or private school. To attract and retain quality substitute teachers, Kelly goes beyond paying the prevailing wage in the school or district by providing weekly pay, direct deposit, free software training, vacation/holiday pay, and access to health benefits and a 401(k) program. An orientation/training session and comprehensive grade-appropriate handbooks developed by The Substitute Teaching Institute at Utah State University help prepare Kelly teachers for the classroom. Continual surveys of permanent teachers and administrators at schools with Kelly Educational Staffing indicate a 99 percent rate of satisfaction with the performance of Kelly substitute teachers. About Kelly Services Kelly Services, Inc. (NASDAQ:KELYANASDAQ:KELYB) is a Fortune 500 company headquartered in Troy, Mich., offering human resources solutions that include temporary services, staff leasing, outsourcing, vendor on-site and full-time placement. With more than 2,400 company owned and operated offices in 26 countries, Kelly provides to its customers nearly 700,000 employees annually, with skills including office services, accounting, engineering, information technology, law, science, marketing, light industrial, education and health care. Sales in 2002 were $4.1 billion. Visit http://www.kellyservices.com/ . http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/19991208/KELLYLOGO DATASOURCE: Kelly Services, Inc. CONTACT: Robert Doetsch of Kelly Services, +1-248-244-5362 Web site: http://www.kellyservices.com/

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