Legislator suggests penalties for data-entry errors

Author : Aaron Sadler

A longtime state legislator Wednesday proposed penalties for school employees who make repeated errors when entering information into a statewide school accounting system.

Data-entry errors consistently plague the Arkansas Public School Computer Network. He thinks the error-prone should be forced to undergo new training about how to enter information into the network.

Lawmakers have often criticized the system for producing inaccurate or unusable reports because of data-entry errors at the school district level.

Currently, there are no penalties for schools or their employees who make data errors.

"I've heard enough from legislators to know that this drives them nuts, thinking that we've got this information, but it's wrong, with a high error rate," Mahony said at a meeting of the Legislature's Joint Committee on Advanced Communications and Information Technology.

Monetary penalties would not be a good idea because they would take money from schools and may directly hurt students. Refusing to allow a school employee to re-enter the APSCN system until the employee completes new training is a more logical penalty.

Murry proposed that the state Department of Education compile a list of common data-entry mistakes and incorporate them into the training already required of APSCN users.

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