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| Students in Perris, Calif., work on Chromebooks in 2013. (Bob Chamberlin/ Los Angeles Times) |
by Howard Blume, latimes.com, 28 November 2014
27 schools set to get iPads will now have a choice of getting less-expensive Chromebooks
IPads or Chromebooks?
Los Angeles school officials want to give schools more choices in equipping students with new computers, part of an ongoing evolution of the district's approach to buying and using technology.
Under a new plan, 27 schools that were originally set to receive iPads, made by Apple, now will also have the choice of choosing a less-expensive Chromebook, which uses a Google operating system.
"We're trying to gear this around giving choices to the schools," said Mark Hovatter, who heads the facilities division for L.A. Unified.
This group of schools is getting computers under a plan approved in January by the Board of Education. Since then, the district-wide $1.3-billion effort to provide every student, teacher and campus administrator with a computer has ground nearly to a halt.
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27 schools set to get iPads will now have a choice of getting less-expensive Chromebooks
IPads or Chromebooks?
Los Angeles school officials want to give schools more choices in equipping students with new computers, part of an ongoing evolution of the district's approach to buying and using technology.
Under a new plan, 27 schools that were originally set to receive iPads, made by Apple, now will also have the choice of choosing a less-expensive Chromebook, which uses a Google operating system.
"We're trying to gear this around giving choices to the schools," said Mark Hovatter, who heads the facilities division for L.A. Unified.
This group of schools is getting computers under a plan approved in January by the Board of Education. Since then, the district-wide $1.3-billion effort to provide every student, teacher and campus administrator with a computer has ground nearly to a halt.