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| Our Featured Users |
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| Central Michigan University |
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| "With AOIS, time previously spent dealing with paperwork now is used helping schools develop and refine programs to better serve their students."
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| Harry E. Ross, Ph.D., Former Associate Director CMU |
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| Northern Michigan University |
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"We are pleased to offer our schools the AOIS service since we know it has been proven in usage at Ferris and CMU. It will enable our schools to streamline their paper flow and AOIS will automatically monitor every day the compliance of our schools with State and NMU compliance rules. Since the system is hosted by Corporate Computer, there is no additional impact for either our schools or NMU. Our schools will have Internet access to all their documents and compliance history seven days a week, 24 hours a day. We are certain that AOIS will improve our compliance documentation and that will benefit future audits concerning the expenditure of public funds for education”.
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| William Hyry, Charter Schools Officer at Northern Michigan University |
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| Lake Superior State University |
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| "AOIS has saved us time and material storage. With the savings in time and storage, comes a savings in money. With AOIS, you do not have to store paper print-outs, keep your binders in sync, etc. AOIS provides a peace of mind for compliance efforts."
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| Lila Malmborg, Former Assistant Director for Compliance at LSSU |
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| New Branches School |
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| "I'm gratified to hear that Central Michigan University is taking steps to assist charter school administrators with their regulatory and contractual reporting requirements. With this new system, we'll reduce the amount of time spent dealing with paperwork and have more time to spend helping our students succeed academically." |
| Dave Frederick, School Administrator, New Branches School, Grand Rapids, Michigan Charter School |
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| Ferris State University |
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| "Prior to AOIS, the Ferris State University Charter Schools Office (CSO) used a manual system of three ring binders to track each school. This system was not adequate in making sure that each FSU authorized academy was timely in fulfilling the requirements of applicable laws and regulations. AOIS reduces travel costs, oversight supplies, storage space and there is no additional staff required for oversight. Operational advantages include secure historical archives, improved data access, report generating abilities and our office knows the status of each academy’s compliance on a daily basis." |
| Mindy Britton, Compliance Auditor/Board Liaison at FSUCSO |
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| Chicago International Charter Schools |
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| "We are a multi-state charter school with 12 schools underneath us. We are adding one site per year. Compliance was taking more and more of our time, becoming very cumbersome. My supervisor saw the demo and really saw the power of streamlining the compliance work." |
| Erin Lanoue, Chicago International Charter Schools |
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| The Thomas B. Fordham Foundation |
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| "Part of our job as an authorizer is to make sure that our schools are in compliance with state regulations. Having AOIS allows us to ask for that information year round, instead of pulling it from the schools each time we need something. Most importantly, the tool lets us significantly shorten our site visits of the schools." |
| Kathryn Mullen Upton, Director of Sponsorship at TBFF |
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| Lucas County Educational Service Center |
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| "AOIS appealed to us because we were able to see how it was working with similar authorizers in other cities and states. AOIS is easy to use. It has made more time available for other important issues rather than gathering compliance paper. It also sets in easy to use format deadlines and measurements which are easy for both schools and authorizers to track." |
| Frank Stoy, Community Schools Consultant at LCESC |
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| White Hat Management |
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| "AOIS provides an efficient, electronic filing system for our oversight efforts with additional functionality that enables us to automate our oversight activities. It offers that quick “snapshot” so you can easily view the compliance status for all of our schools in one central system." |
| Amy Catlin, White Hat Management |
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| Educational Service Center of Central Ohio |
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| "We are basically a one person operation in terms of charter school oversight and we needed additional help in monitoring and tracking our schools. Hiring additional staff was not an option and AOIS became an affordable alternative. In addition, AOIS forced us to develop a master calendar and a description of each document. AOIS is a lifesaver in tracking our school’s compliance." |
| David Mancini, Coordinator of Community Schools at ESCCO |
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| School District 27J |
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| "The staff at Corporate Computer has been flexible and allowed us to adapt the system to fit the contract needs of our four schools. We used the system when we had a lot of due dates as a compliance issue resulted in a corrective action plan. All documents and timelines specified were easier to track and access." |
| Samuel Sakurada, Charter School Liaison at BSD 27J |
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| DC Public Charter School Board |
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| "DCPCSB authorizes and monitors 96 charter campuses and the AOIS content management system will enable us to do an effective job in a very efficient manner. AOIS will enable DCPCSB to move to a close to paperless environment and free up valuable time and resources for our staff and schools." |
| Lamont Brittain, Information Technology Manager at DCPCSB |
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| Ball State University Office of Charter Schools |
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| "We were having problems with the high cost of maintaining and retrieving records. We were also having problems with standardizing our reports and we had no process to document if reports were on time and accurate. AOIS addressed these problems in an economic fashion. AOIS takes less clerical time to file documents and retrieve them compared to the paper process. AOIS is a cost-effective tool." |
| Peter Tschaepe, Finance Coordinator at BSUOCS |
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| East St. Louis School District 189 |
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| "We decided to purchase AOIS because of the increasing volume of work. I interface with the charter school administrators, the Superintendent of Schools and one of our attorneys. I also spend a good deal of time leveraging the expertise of District 189 professional staff. We believe AOIS will help School District 189 and its charter schools avoid the “pile ups” that occur when computer-driven data and processes meet their manually manipulated counterparts. Each year the Illinois State Board of Education seems to extrapolate more reports directly from data in a school district’s database. This change has led School District 189 to consider new systems to keep its database fluid. We also believe that AOIS will enable our charter schools to spend less time preparing, submitting, filing and retrieving data. We want them to devote more time to providing quality instruction." |
| Renee Mayfield, Charter School Liaison |
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