It's been an interesting ride, but the Los Angeles school iPad program is done. Between the rampant student hacking and the FBI probe,
you can see how the focus kind of wandered away from education. But
there are millions of dollars tied up in the project, so it's not just
lunch money.
As the Los Angeles Times reports,
the Unified School District Board of Education told its attorneys that
they should consider litigation against Apple and Pearson. (Pearson
developed the iPad curriculum as an Apple contractor.) District counsel
David Holmquist said that Superintendent Ramon C. Cortines “made the
decision that he wanted to put them on notice, Pearson in particular,
that he’s dissatisfied with their product.” In a letter to Apple, the
school district wrote that it won't continue to pay for the Pearson
curriculum or services. And board members are calling for a refund.
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