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Officer that will report directly to the Superintendent. The CIO will be responsible for providing an information system strategy for the school system and for doing the system's architecture design for the plan proposed here. In addition, the CIO will be responsible for interacting with the state with regard to information needed by the state. The information systems group will be responsible for all IS training in the schools and departments as well as for new applications and network development. 3.1 .1 Problems overcome We anticipate that the recommendations above will overcome a number of problems currently existing in the information systems of the CHCSS. These problems can be divided into two categories: pupil information systems and operating systems. Pupil information systems problems The current SIMS system appears to have been state of the art when first implemented but is currently badly out of date and inefficient. We believe that the school system is asking SIMS to do more than it was designed to do. This has been corroborated by personnel at the State offices. Locally, the system takes a disproportionate amount of maintenance and support. Training to support the current SIMS system primarily provided by the state is inadequate and badly structured. Documentation is cumbersome and non-user friendly. This puts considerable burden on Lincoln Center Information Systems personnel and makes it difficult to support all users equally. There is little or no real time error checking in running the system which causes considerable delay in report preparation. The current state plans call for development of a new system to overcome many of the existing problems. State personnel do not expect such a system to be available for at least three or more years. Accordingly, we recommend the adoption of a new, non-state developed system to overcome these operations systems problems. 6