Poland schools to upgrade database
POLAND — The school district is in the early stages of implementing a new feature to its database that promises to improve communications among students, parents and teachers.
During its meeting tonight, the board of education approved technology training for teachers of grades five through 12 for the program, which will allow parents to access their children’s grades online starting at the beginning of the 2010-11 school year.
Another benefit of the upgrade will be quick access to students’ attendance, discipline reports, class schedules, test data and transcripts, noted Vince Procopio, Poland Seminary High School’s principal.
The technology should be cost-efficient, partly by reducing the need for paper and eliminating grade books; it also is to improve reliability of information gathered during parent-teacher conferences, he explained.
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