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Which Way, L.A.?

If You Give Kids iPads, Can You Keep Them off the Web?

All students at LA Unified will be issued iPads under a program estimated to cost a billion dollars. But it turns out there's a hitch. Three hundred students at Theodore Roosevelt High School alone have hacked through security in order to surf the Internet. Howard Blume reports on education for the LA Times .

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By Warren Olney • May 12, 2014 • 1 min read

All students at LA Unified will be issued iPads under a program estimated to cost a billion dollars. But it turns out there's a hitch. Three hundred students at Theodore Roosevelt High School alone have hacked through security in order to surf the Internet. Howard Blume reports on education for the LA Times.

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    Warren Olney

    former KCRW broadcaster

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    Christian Bordal

    Managing Producer, Greater LA

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    Anna Scott

    Former KCRW Housing and Homelessness Reporter

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    Andrea Brody

    Senior Producer, KCRW's Life Examined and To the Point podcast

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    Howard Blume

    education reporter for the Los Angeles Times

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    Steve Zimmer

    LA Unified School District; candidate for School Board District 4 seat

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    Peter Reiher

    UCLA

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