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Tuesday, April 22, 2014

4LAKids - some of the news that doesn't fit 4-22-14

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Updated coverage: DISTRICT ATTORNEY SAYS NO CHARGES WARRANTED OVER L.A. SCHOOL’S iPAD CONTRACT + smfs’s 2¢ …x2!
  The district attorney's office acts after reviewing an internal L.A. school district report on the iPad contract that is said to raise issues on the handling of the bidding process. By Howard Blume, L.A. Times | http://lat.ms/1recIrz 10:00 PM PDT, April 21, 2014  ::  The Los Angeles County district attorney's office has reviewed an internal L.A. school district report on its iPad contract

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AcaDeca: GRANADA HILLS, EL CAMINO REAL HIGH SCHOOLS PREPARE FOR NATIONAL DECATHLON IN HAWAI’I
By Brenda Gazzar, Los Angeles Daily News | http://bit.ly/1tvPLSG El Camino Real High School student Brandon Slater studies at school Thursday for the national Academic Decathlon championship in Hawaii that will take place April 24-26. Michael Owen Baker — Staff photographer Granada Hills Charter student Mayson Lee prepares for the United States Academic Decathalon Championships April
inBloom: SCHOOL ®EFORM’S NSA ‘BIG-DATA’ DATA MINER, BUBBLES UNDER
  THE DANGER REMAINS: “London- and New York City-based Pearson, for example, offers the PowerSchool student information system, which currently stores information on roughly 13 million U.S. schoolchildren.” inBloom to Shut Down Amid Growing Data-Privacy Concerns By Benjamin Herold, - Education Week Digital Education  |  http://bit.ly/1i4P5PS

4LAKids - some of the news that doesn't fit 4-21-14

4LAKids - some of the news that doesn't fit