Democrasoft, Inc. (OTC: Pinksheets: DEMO) announced two significant milestones this month for its flagship online education platform, Collaborize Classroom.

The Santa Rosa-based company reported that there have been 20,000 Collaborize Classrooms created by teachers worldwide, with 1.5 million individual lessons delivered to students via the online platform.

The platform has steadily gained popularity since its launch in January of 2011.

Collaborize Classroom has quickly become part of a worldwide effort to adapt education to the 21st century needs of students everywhere, said Richard Lang, company CEO, in a written release.

The free online platform allows teachers to have secure conversations and share materials and lesson plans through any Internet browser or Web-enabled Apple device. There are currently 2,500 lesson topics on the site.

The platform has experienced a 25 percent average growth rate since launch. Democrasoft, in its 20th year, offers a number of proprietary social media platforms for nonprofits, companies and schools.

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California State University officials chose to bar enrollment for all but a relative handful of students in the spring 2013 semester, a move meant to stave off further tuition hikes in the financially strained system.

The number of students admitted in spring 2013 will be in the hundreds, all currently in community colleges and through the Student Transfer Agreement Reform Act, also known as Senate Bill 1440. Sonoma State University in Rohnert Park is among the handful of campuses that will accept those students, along with Cal State campuses in San Francisco, Chico, Fullerton, the East Bay, Channel Islands, Los Angeles and San Bernardino.

Having already taken a $750 million budget cut for the current fiscal year, the 23-campus CSU system said it could face another $200 million reduction for fiscal 2013 if California voters do not approve applicable tax measures on the November ballot.

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