One of the worst urban school districts in the United States is making headlines with a head-scratching purchase…and taxpayers are footing the bill.
Detroit Public Schools students will have access to 35,000 laptop computers in school starting next month in what the officials are calling an unmatched infusion of technology in the district.
DPS teachers already have received 5,000 new ASUS Netbook laptops and training as a result of the $49 million technology program funded by the federal stimulus money, Robert Bobb, the DPS Emergency Financial Manager said today.
You can’t blame this one on former Detroit mayor (and prisoner #44678-039 at the Federal Correctional Institution in Milan, MI) Kwame Kilpatrick.
And did anyone else notice that the DPS Emergency Financial Manager’s name is Bob Bobb?
