From the Los Angeles Times
Bonds should not pay for iPad curriculum, new L.A. Unified head says
By Howard Blume and Kim Christensen
Newly installed Los Angeles schools Supt. Ramon Cortines said he opposes using construction bond money to pay for curriculum on student computers, raising new questions about the future of the system's controversial $1.3-billion technology project.
Using voter-approved bonds for curriculum rather than building and repairing schools has been a contentious element in the effort to provide every student, teacher and campus administrator with a computer. Critics and some officials harbor lingering concerns about its legality and wisdom, according to interviews and documents reviewed by The Times....
The debate over spending school construction bonds for technology has been going on in districts "up and down the state," said Brian Carver, an assistant professor at the UC Berkeley School of Information and a member of the board of directors of the California League of Bond Oversight Committees.