School In-plants Achieve Straight-A Performance

And though outside entities like Kinko's continue to target these in-plants' work, the most successful shops are those that have focused on supporting their school's chief mission: improving student achievement.

Home-grown Learning Materials

At Houston Independent School District Administrative Services—the country's largest school district in-plant, with 48 employees—the district has been creating its own instructional materials for several years for its 210,000 students. The in-plant has supported this program by printing and binding these materials quickly and less expensively than an outside vendor could. Interest in these home-grown textbooks is growing.