When the educrats in DC are stupid,California taxpayers get ripped off

Common Core and the EduTech abyss

In North Carolina, the Guilford County public school district withdrew 15,000 Amplify tablets last fall. Pre-loaded with Common Core apps and part of a federal $30 million Race to the Top grant program, the devices peddled by News Corp. and Wireless Generation were rendered useless because of defective cases, broken screens and malfunctioning power supplies.

Last year, the Los Angeles Unified School District dumped $1 billion of scarce resources into a disastrous iPad program. Educrats paid $678 per glorified Apple e-textbook, pre-loaded with Common Core-branded apps created by Pearson. As I've reported previously, Pearson is the multibillion-dollar educational publishing and testing conglomerate at the center of the federally driven, taxpayer-funded "standards" scheme. Pearson's digital learning products are used by an estimated 25 million-plus people in North America. Common Core has been a convenient new catalyst for getting the next generation of consumers hooked.

Los burócratas en Sacramento aceptan sobornos de salemen tecnología de SIlicon Valley. La tecnología nunca funciona, los contribuyentes pierde miles de millones, pasa cada tiempo en este estado corrupto.

In California the tech purchasing system is so corrupt that pencil and paper still remain cost effective. Corruption between Cal Bureaucrats and Silicon Valley, a horror show.