Last year the Los Angeles school district made the decision to invest $1 billion in buying iPads over several years in a program called "iPads for All."
After the purchase of several tens of thousands of iPads for students, the representatives of the school district began to question the whole plan, and then they made the decision to suspend it, this a few months before the FBI initiated an investigation for he. According to the famous LA Times newspaper, the FBI raided the offices of the Los Angeles school district and seized 20 boxes of documents related to the program to purchase iPad tablets from Apple.
Investigators are trying to prove a link between Apple managers, the former head of the Los Angeles Unified School District, John Deasy, and the Pearson company that created a customized program for iPad tablets. The current chief inspector of the Los Angeles Unified School District claims that the decision to close the program is not related to the investigation carried out by the FBI, but is a result of the suspension imposed in August.
We're not going to use the original iPad contract anymore. I think there have been too many innuendos, rumors, etc., and based on my reading of a great deal of material over Thanksgiving, I came to this conclusion. As CEO and steward of a billion-dollar operation, I have to make sure things are done properly so they are not questioned.
The problem for Apple is that its tablets are being shunned in favor of Chromebooks developed by Google, and the refusal of the Los Angeles Unified School District to buy more tablets will not help the American company in convincing other school units to buy its products. In Los Angeles, the program seems to have failed because the students were not using the tablets for educational purposes, as it was intended, so the decision to give them up is a logical one, considering that the state money was used to give expensive gifts to the students.
