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Fullbench vs. Kelly Education: one employer vs. an open network
Kelly Education, the K-12 division of Kelly Services, describes itself as the nation's largest provider of education talent, serving 1,000+ districts. Kelly recruits, employs, and manages the substitute workforce itself, and runs the fill process on scheduling platforms like Frontline and Red Rover. That is a real service at real scale, and a structurally different model from Fullbench.
Side by side
Two structures, side by side
| Question | Fullbench | Kelly Education (per public materials) |
|---|---|---|
| The model | An open network: many staffing agencies compete for every requisition under one set of recorded rules. The district picks the winner each time. | Single-provider outsourcing: Kelly itself recruits, employs, and manages the substitute workforce, assuming employer obligations. Its bench is the program. |
| What the district pays | $0 to Fullbench. Districts pay the agencies' bill rates, under a ceiling the district sets. The program is funded by the agencies after the district has paid, itemized on each remittance. | A negotiated per-district markup on substitute pay. Not published by Kelly; visible only in board records. For example, a 27.5% markup in a 2023 Florida district and a 1.269 markup factor in a Kansas district (each from the district's published board record). |
| Fill capacity | Every agency your district approves, including the ones you already use, receives the opening at the same recorded time. Capacity is your approved list's combined bench, not one employer's pipeline. | Kelly's own recruiting engine and bench, which is large. Capacity rises and falls with one employer's pipeline. |
| Other agencies | The point of the program. Any qualified agency can join, and all play under the same recorded release rules, with the fee stated in each agency's agreement. | No public description of how other staffing agencies could participate in a Kelly-managed program was located as of August 2026; district contracts reviewed in public records read as single-provider agreements. |
| What you see on screen | One platform built for the program: requisitions, simultaneous releases, credential gates, one invoice, scorecards, every decision recorded with a time. | Kelly integrates with third-party scheduling platforms (Frontline, Red Rover, PowerSchool) and layers its account teams on top; no VMS of Kelly's own was located in its public materials as of August 2026. |
| Leaving | The agencies are yours and stay under your own contracts; nobody's workforce has to be transferred to change program operators. Termination and transition terms, including what the exit export contains and when, are exhibits in the agreement. Ask for them at the first meeting. | When the incumbent is also the employer of the entire substitute pool, changing providers means transitioning the workforce itself, a switch districts should cost out before signing. |
Based on publicly available information as of August 2026: kellyeducation.com, kellyservices.com, Kelly press releases, and public district board records and local reporting (Lee County FL 2023, Shawnee Mission KS, Volusia County FL 2026). "Not located" refers to public materials, not Kelly's internal practices; per-district contract terms vary. Kelly Education and Kelly Services are trademarks of their owner. Spot an error? Tell us and we will correct it.
The takeaway
One bench, or every bench
- Kelly hands one company the whole employer burden. A single supplier's bad recruiting semester has nowhere to be absorbed, and your cost rides on a markup negotiated privately.
- Fullbench is a program run for you across every bench you approve. The opening reaches all of them at the same recorded time, no start on an unapproved file, no candidate advanced except by your hand.
- Those are what the program does, not policies. Watch each one on a live system before you sign anything.
Comparison last verified 25 August 2026 against Kelly Education's own published materials and public district board records.
Sources
Where this comes from
Checked 25 August 2026. We compare only against what the other program publishes about itself — never against what a salesperson told us.
- Kelly Education — company site kellyeducation.com
If anything here is out of date or wrong, tell us at hello@fullbench.co and we will correct it. Kelly Education is a trademark of its owner; this page exists for factual comparison.
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Next step
Talk to the person who would run your program.
Fifteen minutes on your roles, your rate ceilings and the agencies you already use, with the program open. No slides, no obligation, and no cost to your district.
What we cover
- How your district manages its agencies today.
- Candidate review, document approval and billing, on a case like yours.
- Whether one department is the right place to start.
You leave with a clear next step. Nothing is signed on the call.