L.A. school district demands refund after ‘iPads-for-all’ debacle finally implodes - EAGnews.org
"LOS ANGELES – The Los Angeles Unified School District wants its money back.
District leaders this week are sending letters to computer maker Apple over a
$500 million deal it inked with the company in 2013 to provide iPads to all students in the district.
...School board members also asked district attorneys to look into the possibility of suing Pearson and Apple to recover some of the tax money they wasted, according to the news site.
The iPads-for-all program was the brainchild of former L.A. Unified s
uperintendent John Deasy, who repeatedly characterized the program as a civil rights issue – poor kids deserved access to the same devices as their wealthier classmates.
The
program was an immediate flop, as students who received the tablets quickly circumvented the district’s firewall to surf websites they shouldn’t.
Many schools also did not have the infrastructure in place to handle the increased demand on bandwidth."
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