public schools

Community Unit School District 300 is looking for a theme developer to build a new theme for our new Drupal 5 site. We have a base theme now but would like a completely new one that is much more aesthetically pleasing and school appropriate. School District 300 consists of 27 schools in the northern Illinois area. The project is scheduled to launch on Nov. 24th and should give the developer approximately 3 weeks to finish. For more information please contact me.

Greetings!

By day I'm the Webmaster at a mid to large size public school system here in the USA (Frederick County Public Schools, MD). I'm curious to know how many of you out there in Drupal-land are implementing Drupal sites in the public education sector. Some specific questions:

1) Do you support it (server-wise) in house or do you host outside/off campus?

2) Do you host on VPS/dedicated or shared? Linux or Windows?

3) Do you run multi-site configurations?

4) How long have you been running Drupal sites?