Apple Donates $291K towards Pittsburgh's School iPad Plan
Yesterday we reported that the FBI raided L.A. Unified and removed documents related to the ill-fated "iPads-for-all Project. The former L.A. schools Superintendent John Deasy acknowledged that the project was an expensive draw from bond funds. But he said there was no other way to pay for what he called a civil rights imperative — to provide low-income students equal access to technology in the nation's second-largest school system. Today, the negative news about the ill-fated "iPads-for-all" fades a little with the news that Apple is openly supporting another iPad project to support kids in Pittsburgh schools.
According to the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, "The Steel Valley school board on Tuesday night voted to accept a $291,791.70 donation from Apple Corp. to implement a new district-wide technology plan using iPads.
Superintendent Ed Wehrer said the donation, and a separate $69,921 gift from philanthropist William Campbell through his new Campbell Educational and Community Foundation, will be used to train teachers in how to use iPads in the classroom, and to buy the devices for every student.
Administrators will be working on the plan the second half of this school year, and there will be a rolling implementation of the new technology plan during the 2015-2016 school year to give iPads to all students, Mr. Wehrer said.
Students will be taught how to be responsible iPad users, he said. The Internet is constantly changing, but the district will use technology to block every inappropriate website that the district knows about from the iPads, he said. Mr. Wehrer added that they're 'excited to be working with Apple.'"
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