Likely a bribe

Apple Inc. won a $30-million contract Tuesday from the L.A. Unified School District, paving the way for the company to provide every student with an iPad in the nation's second-largest school system. The Board of Education voted 6 to 0 on Tuesday to approve the contract after hearing senior staff laud Apple's product as both the best in quality and the least expensive option that met the district's specifications.LA Times

Actual bribery is the most likely cause of California bureaucrats and their continual failure with technology, this project will follow suit. Given the third, or fourth time the NCLB testing has changed, the school board has given up and wants to turn the task over to web bots.  The web bots will not be available in time, about a quarter of a billion in software will be wasted, and teachers will, at the last moment, have to adopt pencil and paper. And yet another cycle of failure and fiasco will follow.

OK, then the real problem?  California teachers, using insider party channels, got the state invovled with the nasty, destabilizing No Child Left Behind.  They have regretted the bonehead move ever since, but because of their inherent Orwellianism, teachers cannot find out what they did wrong.  They and the students have suffered for over ten years because Ca teachers are too stupid to step out of the box.