LATimes Pans LAUSD Superintendent's Laptop Plan

The Los Angeles Times (10/9) editorializes that Los Angeles Unified School District Superintendent John Deasy "wants to buy every teacher and student in Los Angeles Unified School District a tablet computer within a year or two - 700,000 of the electronic devices, he figures - and pay for it with bonds that were passed by voters to build, repair and update school facilities." However, Deasy "doesn't know which tablets he's interested in buying or have an estimate of how much they might cost." The piece states that in addition to the issue of spending facilities money on this type of technology upgrade, the nebulous nature of Deasy's plan makes it advisable that he do more research before committing resources to it.