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School system making paper records thing of the past - JENNIFER RAGLAND, Los Angeles Times

It's a problem that has been around as long as students have been applying to college: the lost high school transcript. Teenagers complain about it. Admissions counselors agonize over it. In 2001, Hollywood took it on with the comedy "Orange County," in which a high-achieving student's hopes of going to Stanford are threatened when his school botches the transcript transmission. Now, some campuses are aiming to end those worries as they begin making the ubiquitous paper transcript a thing of the past. Among the pioneers is Oak Park High School in Ventura County. Last November, Oak Park began using a new software program that enables students to have their records sent electronically - directly from Oak Park's computers to the computers of colleges and universities.

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