| N.C. District Rebounds From Ed-Tech Meltdown |
| Posted by: Susan Einhorn |
| Thirteen months after pulling the plug on a $33 million student-computing effort gone awry, North Carolina\'s Guilford County school district has managed to get its signature technology initiative up and running. But the costs of starting over for the 73,000-student district—including wasted time, damaged credibility, and considerable staff frustration—have been high. And those burdens pale in comparison to the price paid by Amplify, the vendor that last school year supplied the district with thousands of digital tablets plagued with hardware problems. In order to keep its contract in Guilford County, the New York City-based company absorbed millions of dollars in losses, according to documents provided by the district. \"Believe me, none of us would ever ask for something like this to happen,\" said Nora K. Carr, the chief of staff for the Guilford County district. |
| Source: EdWeek (USA) | Published: January 27th, 2015 |
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