LA school district seeks millions from Apple over iPad software woes<article>
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The Los Angeles Unified School District is seeking a multimillion dollar refund from Apple over a failed project to provide 650,000 students with iPads they could use at home.</p><p>
LA Unified approached Apple in 2013 about using its tablets as part of an ambitious project to provide every student, teacher and administrator in the U.S.’s second-largest school district with an iPad.</p><p>
The initiative, then known as the Common Core Technology Project, would cost around $1.3 billion, the school district said at the time, with half that figure going to Apple and the remainder being used to build out wireless networks at the schools.</p><p>
Apple hired Pearson Education as a subcontractor to develop software for the iPads, but according to a letter the school district sent to Apple this week, a “vast majority” of the student have been unable to use the software.</p><p class="jumpTag"><a href="/article/2911316/la-school-district-seeks-millions-from-apple-over-ipad-software-woes.html#jump">To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here[/url]</p></section></article>
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LA school district seeks millions from Apple over iPad software woes
