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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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    LAUSD High Schoolers Hack Their New iPads
    1. 0:00California to Raise Minimum Wage to $10 an Hour
    2. 4:31If You Give Kids iPads, Can You Keep Them off the Web?You’re reading this
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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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    2 of 2
    LAUSD High Schoolers Hack Their New iPads
    1. 0:00California to Raise Minimum Wage to $10 an Hour
    2. 4:31If You Give Kids iPads, Can You Keep Them off the Web?You’re reading this
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