http://www.frevvo.com/ | K-12 school districts spend large amounts of money on paper and bureaucratic processes. Process automation by frevvo can greatly cut these costs!

1. Cut K-12 Paperwork with Process Automation
School districts around the nation face continued pressure to cut expenses as state funding of K-
12 education has yet to recover to pre-Great Recession levels. The need to spend every dollar
wisely has resulted in an increased focus on efficiency by school districts. Electronic forms and
approval workflows provide school systems with an opportunity to increase efficiency by
eliminating unnecessary paperwork, enhancing employee productivity and job satisfaction while
also cutting costs by massively reducing paper usage. Most important of all, employees have
more time to focus on what’s most important – students.
According to U.S. News and World Report, only a handful of states are spending the same or
more than they were on public K-12 education prior to the 2008 financial crisis. In fact, some
states are spending significantly less than they did before the Great Recession struck. Arizona
now spends 23.3 percent less on public education than it did in 2008, while Alabama spends 21.4
percent less now than it did in 2008.
Because of tight budgets, school systems are seeking ways to reduce costs and improve
efficiency. Process automation, which uses software to automate routine day-to-day tasks such as
Absence Records, Travel Claim and Permission Slips, can help schools save significant time and
money.
Paper costs real money
School systems spend a lot of money on paper, often unnecessarily. Consider this: Just one New
York City school discarded 28 lbs. of paper – that’s about 2,800 sheets – for each student,
teacher, and support staff employee. Extrapolating, a school system with 10,000 students,
teachers, and staff would discard 28,000,000 sheets of paper per year, a more than $200,000
expense that doesn’t even include the cost of printers or ink.
Most or all of this paper expense could be eliminated by transferring documents to an online
format. There are a variety of currently paper-based tasks school systems can automate using a
system of online forms and approval workflows such as those offered by frevvo.
The following are just a few of the tasks frevvo can automate for school districts:
Absence reporting forms
Mileage reimbursements
Permission slips
Student registration
Expense reporting forms
Employee onboarding
Frevvo’s online forms have automatic calculation tools, making filling out mileage and other
financial reports easy. frevvo also allows these forms to be routed to the appropriate parties in a
school system’s administration, making the approval process quick and easy. Frevvo forms can

2. be signed digitally, and they can be accessed from mobile devices, making them even more
convenient.
With frevvo’s online forms and document workflow process, school system employees will
spend far less time collecting, organizing, and routing paper documents. This will allow
personnel resources to be focused on what’s important – students. Also, because forms are
online, there is less chance that they’ll be lost or misplaced. frevvo can vastly improve
productivity, while also reducing the money spent by school districts on paper and printing
supplies, and equipment.
Customer Success Story
Escondido Union School District (EUSD) in southern California serves about 17,000 students.
The district recently adopted frevvo’s Live Forms to automate a number of processes, including
absence records, mileage reimbursements, budget transfers, and more. Since adopting frevvo, the
district has reduced the time staff spend on paperwork by eliminating the need to print and scan
signatures, reduced the need for corrections, and sped up approvals for paperwork, allowing the
district to operate far more efficiently than it did when these tasks involved paper documents. In
fact, EUSD was able to decommission SharePoint as a result of their success with frevvo.
By automating bureaucratic processes with frevvo, school districts can cut their paper expenses,
free up staff from tedious data entry and document-related tasks, reduce errors, and aid the
environment, making frevvo a great investment for budget-conscious school districts.
Summary
K-12 school districts spend large amounts of money on paper and bureaucratic processes.
Process automation by frevvo can greatly cut these costs.
Company Bio
Cloud-based software for mobile web forms and approval workflows which are easily
customizable and easy to use are provided by frevvo, leading to solutions for all types of
businesses and educational organizations. With the ability to access, sign, and route important
documents from anywhere, businesses and other organizations can greatly increase productivity
and cut costs.
Sources:
http://www.usnews.com/news/blogs/data-mine/2015/12/10/state-education-funding-hasnt-
recovered-from-recession