LA Unified School District awards Apple $30-million contract for iPads as Microsoft whines


“Apple Inc. won a $30-million contract Tuesday from the Los Angeles Unified School District, paving the way for the company to provide every student with an iPad in the nation’s second-largest school system,” Howard Blume and Teresa Watanabe report for The Los Angeles Times.

“The board voted 6 to 0 to authorize the purchase of the devices after senior staff lauded the iPad option as both the best in quality and the least expensive product that met the district’s specifications,” Blume and Watanabe report. “L.A. Unified will begin rolling out the devices to 47 campuses. However, by choosing Apple as the sole vendor, the district also made a de facto commitment to spend hundreds of millions of dollars with the Cupertino, Calif., digital giant over the next two years.”

http://macdailynews.com/2013/06/19/la-unified-school-district-awards-apple-30-million-contract-for-ipads-as-microsoft-whines/

Those kids would be at an edge over others. A governor from the western part of Nigeria supplied tablets to some secondary school.
Good for them sha. New age learning.