This article asks: “LAUSD iPad Deal: iPaid Too Much?”
Is it legal to use voter-approved construction bonds with a 25-year or 30-year paydown period to buy devices that will be obsolete in 3-4 years?
Isn’t this a misdirection and misuse of what was approved by the voters?
Were voters misled?
Would they have approved a $1 billion tax to pay for iPads?
Surely there must be a city or state official with the power to investigate this mess.
Diane Ravitch's blog 
Yes, it’s probably illegal. It’s certainly bad financial management and bad politics. The opponents of the next bond referendum will be quick to point it out.
When the bonds were sold they were accompanied by a “bond covenant..” One of your many followers should dig this document out and take a look.
Isn’t any contract that has “illegal” underpinnings null and void? Any lawyers out there help me out on this one.
People can sign a petition calling for an investigation into this matter here: http://k12newsnetwork.com/blog/2013/09/06/lausd-ipad-deal-ipaid-too-much/
I signed But it’s an error to ask LAUSD to investigate. The board should have broken down the deal with Apple and did not. I believe they could have been mislead. The public was. We heard $30million, which is a lot but we had no idea this was billions or they schools will stay I’d disrepair for another 25 years as a result. The bond measure blown on Broad’s Taj Mahal HSs in the area lose to LAUSD cost taxpayers plenty and they are all a disaster. Now this iPad deal just has bad faith grift reeking. But LAUSD has stood a very long while without answering for a multitude of egregious transgressions, most notably the concealment of child abuse and criminal indifference that has doomed yet more children to be harmed. This is a criminal enterprise. These people are insulated in the thickness only thieves can fully deploy. They will pend $10 million to avoid paying $100 k to avert ant stain on its record. Setting precedence would actually mean they old answer for their corruption and incompetence. Presently, teachers are answering for it, and we have long been the ones to pick up the educRAT$ slack, suffering its wrath and making sacrifices to compensate for constant budget crisis and paying dues to a union that has definitely been a. judas long before Deasy strutted in like a post modern Dickens villain ready to exploit the children of our community with more cunning and cyput throat purpose than jackels in middle management could have seen the way to until he taught them how to act with impunity. Which is actually not very hard when you got the city leaders and Feds in your pocket. What these white chalk criminals do not have is the state supt, Thorkleson and our button-down, nose-to-the -grindstone Jesuit governor Jerry Brown. There is not much coverage of it, but the pair has tinkered with laws, resisted the testing and core impositions of Arme Duncan ( who must have missed civics the day they learned about the 10th amendment) . I suggest you send this petition to them. I have sent our growing stack of evidence to Thorkleson but believe more than emails will have to be afforded to them. Of course as labor freindly political servants in a state where economic growth is being inspired by higher min wage and leadership focused on what matters otherwise , Brown will be inclined to trust UTLA. The unions, CTA, NEA, and especially the AFT are all compromised.by the corporate reformers who have donated huge sums to the leaders of these organizations.
Randi Weingarten is one of the most conspicuous traitors.
So, please get that thing to the state, ASAP. I am circulating it as well.
Please visit http://www.hemlockontherocks.com to sign more petitions and read what Ms. Ravitch is too polite to say in public.
The problem appears to be in the vaguely written Measure Q. It mentions “increase internet access”. As opponents pointed out it was changed from 3.2 Billion to 7 Billion just before it was presented to voters with no time to analyze the proposal. Stinks of Politics and paybacks!
The same thing happened in NJ with a proposal to assist Higher Education. There was a change right before the vote to allow money for unaccredited schools. This gave Governor Christie a loop-hole to give money to his backers from private Yeshivas..
Even if they snuck a loophole in, isn’t it the intent of the bond that is presented to the public what can be argued? Couldn’t a court find that the public had been misled and basically fraud had been committed? I hate these people. I feel like it’s Wall St. happening all over again in education.
Surely, anyone who thinks that LAUSD will be held accountable for decades of criminal activity doesn’t know anything about this district. They have been audited and investigated up the wazoo, yet continue to get away with murdering the future of poor children through rampant theft and corruption. There isn’t even a place in hell that is large enough to hold the vast number of criminals who have profitted.
Mos Def.! I was hoping this would give us a coup so we could finally decentralize the district and facilitate smaller ones ( which has happened for some times and usually to a better end as Long Beach, PV, Torrance, Redondo, and others illustrate. We could hire intrium superintendents to facillitate this. We thought John Fernandez and Robert Skeels, both activists with deep respect in the community and growing distinction as leaders ( to teachers , adult ed students,and parents) would ease the beast back into hell. But the bloody filth is so deep, it is unlikely we can get any support, unless we decertify our union. We want to. But how can this work when all the way up ts skewed to work against students, parents and teachers, who are all being bashed in the media?