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School Board Seems Surprised by Its Own iPad Deal
Let’s say an alien spaceship somehow descended on yesterday’s two LA Unified meetings concerning the district’s iPad program. It is entirely possible the ETs would end up with the impression that the district was months, perhaps even a year away from launching one of the most expensive and high profile projects the school board has...
By Vanessa Romo | October 23, 2013
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LA Teachers Get Their Hands on the Future as iPad Era Begins
More than 100 elementary school teachers from around the Los Angeles school district gathered Monday at Theodore Roosevelt High School in east LA as one of the first group of instructors to learn how to use the Apple iPad, a key teaching device in the academic year that opens next Tuesday. These K-through-6 teachers were...
By Brenda Iasevoli | August 6, 2013
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Low-Income Schools Getting First Wave of New iPads
When school starts on August 13, students on 47 campuses will receive back-to-school gifts: brand new iPads, courtesy of LAUSD’s $30 million first phase of its technology plan, which aims to give every student and teacher an iPad by the end of 2014. And many of the campuses are located south of the 10 freeway....
By Hillel Aron | July 31, 2013
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Roundup: LAUSD / iPad Story Goes Global
The LAUSD School Board captured media attention from around the world on Tuesday when it unanimously awarded Apple a $30 million contract to purchase iPads for students and teachers in 47 schools. The Wall St. Journal, Mashable, and Newser all got in on the action. The British tabloid The Daily Mail found time for the story with the headline: “EVERY school child in...
By Hillel Aron | June 21, 2013
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Marathon Board Meeting Signals Changes to Come
As anyone following us on Twitter knows all too well, Tuesday’s School Board meeting was a marathon session that lasted well into the night — much of it accompanied by the sound of protesters drumming on the street outside. Among several key decisions the Board arrived at during the lengthy session were votes to award a...
By Hillel Aron | June 19, 2013
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Update: Controversy Awaits $30 Million iPad Vote
The School Board will face a mini controversy tomorrow when it votes on whether or not to to purchase roughly 31,000 Apple iPad tablets at a cost to LAUSD of $30 million. The appropriation would be the first step in Superintendent John Deasy’s ambitious plan of equipping every student and teacher with a touch-screen tablet...
By Hillel Aron | June 17, 2013