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Los Angeles Unified School District: The Real Cost of Connecting A School to Wi-Fi

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A student at Baldwin Hills Elementary uses an iPad
to help with classwork.
125,000 iPads are scheduled to arrive at schools as the district continues its push to supply all 680,000 students and teachers with a device.  Construction for wireless upgrades also needs to ramp-up. The district has 486 of its approximately 800 campuses scheduled for modernizations before the end of 2014 with an average sticker price of $736,000.

But no one considers the cost to school children's health from exposure to the electromagnetic radiation emitted by Wi-Fi. THAT is the "real cost of connecting a school to Wi-Fi "!

The real cost of connecting a school to Wi-Fi
by Annie Gilbertson, marketplace.org, 3 February 2014

As more schools move equip all students with a computer, one cost is often overlooked - getting those computers connected to the network grid.

The L.A. Unified school district is planning to spend over $500 million to upgrade servers, pull wire and connect antiquated schools to a data grid - a necessary part of its huge effort to supply 700,000 students and teachers with an iPad.
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