One of the best school districts in Louisiana is using Laserfiche enterprise-wide to manage its mission-critical information, including student and teacher records, board of education minutes, financial transactions and property inventories. (more…)

Teaching incarcerated and at-risk juveniles is the job of the Alternative Education division of the Los Angeles County Office of Education. Shuttling between courthouses, treatment facilities, juvenile halls and foster care, these teens and pre-teens often got lost in the system in the past.

Thanks to the instantaneous electronic transfer of their educational files, made possible by Laserfiche WebLink, these juveniles now are keeping up with schoolwork and counseling opportunities. This increases the likelihood of their eventual rehabilitation. (more…)

Each day, students submit a number of documents—from aid applications, scholarship acceptance letters and promissory notes to copies of birth certificates, passports and tax returns—to the University of Utah’s Department of Financial Aid & Scholarships. Prior to installing Laserfiche, staff spent hours sorting, routing and filing these forms—and service suffered as a result. (more…)

The Independent School Districts of Hearne, Calvert, Franklin, Mumford and Bremond, in central Texas, are less than megalopolitan. The largest is Hearne ISD, with 1,500 students. Total enrollment of all five is about 4,000. But the state-mandated chore of retaining student records is just as difficult in districts with fewer students as in big city schools-perhaps tougher, because a smaller student body usually means a rural area with less tax revenue. And less state aid.

Less revenue, but plenty of paper records, in dusty file cabinets and boxes. However, there’s an electronic solution, as the Texans have discovered: Laserfiche document management.
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Suppose your school district was composed of 101 schools, reaching 54,000 youngsters, pre-K to 12th grade.

And of those students, 35,000, give or take X, are eligible for free or low-cost lunches under a state-and- federally-subsidized nutrition program for low-income youth.

(Suppose also, that nobody can be sure whether X represents an insignificant few kids or an army.)

You’d be up against something like what Dr. Nadine Mann faced, as assistant director of the Child Nutrition Program in the East Baton Rouge Parish School System in Louisiana. Hers is a head-counting job worthy of SuperMom—or Laserfiche.
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With 650,000 students taught by 29,000 teachers in 600 schools, the Los Angeles Unified School District is the second largest in the United States. And its enrollment is growing like a healthy teenager.
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If El Niño delivers on its promise of storms, floods, and other meteorological unpleasantness in the Southwest this year, one school district that won’t be too concerned about protecting precious records is the Liberty School District, facing the Trinity River in southeast Texas.
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