[Marketing] Los Angeles ditching Apple/Pearson iPad program

[Sean DALY]

A large-scale ($1.3 billion budget for iPads, pearson software, wifi
infrastructure, target 650K students) education ICT project started in 2013
and meant to eliminate the digital divide which has gone awry. The
superintendent resigned and is under FBI and SEC investigation for corrupt
bidding process, although the board stated they did not believe there was
wrongdoing, only mismanagement.

Only 5% of the students (in 2 of the 69 schools) are able to use the
Pearson software on an iPad.

Interestingly, it seems many of the problems were related to
wifi/networking infrastructure (see last link for gory details).

Sean.

http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-ipad-curriculum-refund-20150415-story.html
<http://www.scpr.org/news/2015/04/15/51027/lausd-ipad-program-ditching-pearson-software-reque/>
http://www.scpr.org/news/2015/04/15/51027/lausd-ipad-program-ditching-pearson-software-reque/
http://www.laweekly.com/news/lausd-chief-john-deasy-resigns-5152268
http://www.pearsoned.com/news/pearson-lausd-statement/
http://www.npr.org/blogs/ed/2014/08/27/343549939/the-l-a-school-ipad-scandal-what-you-need-to-know
http://laschoolreport.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/Instructional-Technology-Initative-Pearson-Update.pdf
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