The Racine Unified School District has 21,000 students and nearly 2,500 employees. With the addition of Racine, the Wisconsin school consortium – which signed its original contract with Lawson in May 2005 – serves nearly 60,000 students and approximately 12,500 employees.
All five districts in the school-consortium run the Lawson applications on the same technology infrastructure, which is hosted and supported by managed applications provider netASPx. Each district pays a percentage of the software costs based on their size. Additionally, netASPx provides a single support site for technical assistance. This can reduce technical support expenses and overall operational costs.
The Lawson system is automated and tightly integrated, which helps the districts focus more resources on better serving students and teachers, said Roger Price, fiscal agent for the Wisconsin School Consortium.
A key selling point of the new system is Lawson’s human resources suite, which will enable district employees to view and manage their human resources information online, as opposed to the previous system where information was printed and distributed with paychecks.
Lawson serves more than 100 government and education clients. Its software is used by almost 3,000 schools with combined enrollments exceeding 1.75 million students and 200,000 staff members.
