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Our Featured Users
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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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"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."
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Mindy Britton, Compliance Auditor/Board Liaison at FSUCSO
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Global Educational Excellence
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"One of my favorite features of the Ferris State University AOIS format is
the display of the document status directly on the Master Calendar listing on the
Home Page. When I sign in, I can quickly see which items need my attention without
having to navigate through additional pages and listings. This is such a time saver!"
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Karen Fowler, EMO User, Global Educational Excellence
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National Heritage Academies
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"AOIS has made a complicated process into an organized and efficient process
of document submission, document filing, and compliance tracking. With the legislative
environment growing and compliance requirements continually increasing, AOIS has
taken much of the sting out of managing our compliance efforts."
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Paul Witte, EMO User, National Heritage Academies
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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."
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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."
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Kathryn Mullen Upton, Director of Sponsorship at TBFF
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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."
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Frank Stoy, former Community Schools Consultant at ESCLEW
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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."
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David Mancini, Coordinator of Community Schools at ESCCO
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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."
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Lamont Brittain, Information Technology Manager at DCPCSB
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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."
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Renee Mayfield, Charter School Liaison
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