Paperwork Reduction

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One way universal service could benefit taxpayers is in paperwork
reduction.  It is already possible to take roll and report attendance
electronically.  (Old habits die hard, so my district continues to
transfer all that information to paper registers, which then must be
stored for years!)  

The Federal Migrant Program and a number of California educational
institutions have been working on a universal K-University student
record that could be shared instantly throughout the U.S. whenever
students move.

The AZ State Education Department is moving toward having all
educational reporting done electronically.  Data collection, sorting,
and reporting could be as fast and versatile as the database program.

The "jute box," a CD-ROM periodical collection, makes having a
collection of journals/periodicals as simple as ordering a collection of
CD-ROM disks.  Royalties are paid as a part of a $.25/page printing fee,
and the user accesses the system through a terminal.  All patrons of a
County library system could have "on-line" access for very nominal fees
charged to their library card, and the library does not have to
sort/store bulky periodicals.

The savings in bulk paper costs, as well as repetitive data entry costs,
storage, and the length of time needed to physically access a specific
piece of paper among 40,000 stored...say one college application
received this fall at a large university...could be significant.

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