Framingham based, youth-oriented service groups are permitted to distribute recruitment material at four (4) periods during the school year. In some cases printed material may be provided to the schools for distribution in Elementary students' backpacks and these requests will need significant advanced notice, as well as approval from the Superintendent’s Office. The District offers a robust digital distribution of material to all FPS families through email, published to the FPS Website, and shared on social media. The translated PDFs will be compiled into one document and sent to FPS families according to the distribution dates below*:

*No exceptions will be permitted to the distribution dates listed above.

Distribution Guidelines:

• Please complete the online application (If you have trouble with the online form, please complete the Application for Distribution on the next page and send the form along with the flyers to: Amy Kane  for approval. Materials will not be distributed without approval from the Superintendent’s Office. 
• According to School Committee policy, “All material to be distributed through the Framingham Schools must be provided in three languages (English, Spanish and Portuguese).”
• Only Framingham-based, non-profit, youth oriented groups will be considered for approval.
• Materials are distributed under the auspices of the School Department; therefore all messages must be free of grammatical and spelling errors to receive approval.
• All materials must contain the statement “Translations provided by… ” (please include the translation source)
• PDFs delivered for digital / electronic distribution should be at least partially accessible**.  
• Please allow 5 - 10 business days to process your request. If approved, you will receive your distribution instructions. If a printed distribution is approved, it will be the responsibility of the organization to package and deliver the materials to the schools.

**Accessibility: For people who have visual impairments and depend on a screen reader to receive their information - a scanned PDF is not accessible. The scanned document is essentially an image that has no identifiable text for a machine to read. The best kind of PDF will have tags, links, alt-text for images, and proper titles and headings. At the very least, the text should be 'selectable'. Please see this article to learn more.