District Tracks Purchases
TECHNOLOGY TRACES SCHOOLS’ STIMULUS BUYS
Posted: December 11, 2009 at 4:21 a.m.
Sharon Morrow, enterprise data architect with the Bentonville School District, shows some of the radio frequency identification tags Thursday that Wal-Mart donated to the district to track equipment. The district is using the tags to track items purchased with federal stimulus money that have to be tracked for five years.
After the Bentonville School District put hundreds of thousands of dollars of stimulus money from the American Reinvestment & Recovery Act to good use on books, calculators and other supplies for the area’s students, members of the district’s Technology Department had just one problem: How to keep track of everything?
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