“Reinvesting in Our Own Students”
Joining with other Minnesota schools to purchase Laserfiche, NE Metro Intermediate School District 916 finds an even more resourceful way to staff it
October 20th, 2009
Several school districts on the eastern side of the Twin Cities agreed they all needed a document management system to handle a massive backlog of student files. “All of us wanted Laserfiche, but none of us had the budget for it—so we figured out a way we could all buy it and use it,” says Kristine Carr, Administrative Services Director at NE Metro 916 Intermediate School District. After a year’s worth of meetings between business managers, four public school districts (NE Metro 916, North Branch Area, Roseville Area and Stillwater Area) had hammered out a plan to share in the cost of a single system that would serve as an enterprise standard.
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