Computer Wizardry.When Lyle Plagenz became superintendent in 1969, Markesan School District had three people in its central office and its annual report to the state filled four pages. Twenty-five years later its annual report is more than 100 pages, but the district still has three central-office administrators-the superintendent, his secretary, and the bookkeeper. Plagenz credits technology with keeping administration costs low (19 percent less than the average per-pupil cost for Wisconsin Wisconsin, state, United States Wisconsin (wĭskŏn`sən, –sĭn), upper midwestern state of the United States. It is bounded by Lake Superior and the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, from which it is divided by the Menominee districts). The district has saved $25,000 a year since it installed a food service software program costing about $8,500. Cafeteria cafeteria: see restaurant. lines no longer back up and each cafeteria can produce a daily precise accounting as needed as needed prn. See prn order. . Last spring one teacher simultaneously taught eighth grade algebra algebra, branch of mathematics concerned with operations on sets of numbers or other elements that are often represented by symbols. Algebra is a generalization of arithmetic and gains much of its power from dealing symbolically with elements and operations (such as classes in two schools; interactive video enabled the teacher and students in both schools to communicate. |
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