Student safety gets 'smart.' School districts have eye on Euclid's success with computer-coded ID cards. (Euclid High School)

From: Crain's Cleveland Business | Date: November 4, 1996| Author: Cook, Bob | Copyright information

When Euclid High School students read George Orwell's book, "1984," they think of themselves.

In the interest of school security, Euclid is taking the lead among Northeast Ohio school districts in using so-called "smart" cards that put student information on a bar code.

As other schools, including the Cleveland system, consider adapting the smart card technology, its applications are expected to spread to monitoring attendance and controlling student access inside s...

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