Feds Sending Some Tech Support To LAUSD
LOS ANGELES (AP) — The U.S. Department of Education will be sending a team to work with the Los Angeles Unified School District on tech issues.
Interim Superintendent Ramon Cortines spoke with Education Secretary Arne Duncan last week.
According to a district spokeswoman, Duncan agreed to send a team to assess and advise on technology matters in December.
LAUSD has been struggling with implementing new technology. Glitches with a new computerized scheduling system left some students unable to register for classes they needed to graduate.
A $1 billion plan to give each student an iPad was also fraught with problems.
The tech troubles were among the struggles leading former Superintendent John Deasy to resign as head of the nation's second largest school system in October.
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