Cobb County , Ga. overseer of schools Joseph Redden has resigned in the wake of a arguing over the county ’s planned deployment of Apple iBooks . The superintendent foretell his surrender on Tuesday .
Cobb County ’s “ Power to study ” initiative once promised to be the largest “ one - to - one ” iBook enterprise ever — if it had proceeded as first expected , more than 63,000 iBooks would have eventually found their way of life into the hands of students in grade 6 through 12 and teachers across Cobb County .
As it was , all Cobb County teachers were expect to get iBooks , along with scholarly person at four “ demonstration site ” schools throughout the county — a sum of 17,000 laptops . Experts from the University of Georgia were then to have brush up the program to try its effectiveness . If approve , the iBooks would have been rolled out to more students .
What was in question , tell the judge , was n’t the virtue of the programme , but how the money used to pay for it was justified to taxpayers . The money used was pulled from a especial sale tax ratified by Cobb County residents in 2003 . That money was described as bear for upgrade to the school arrangement ’s obsolete information processing system , not for a laptop computer program on the scale that had been planned .
The program draw sharp class within the residential district . Proponents of the programme take it would increase student participation and supply access to computers for underprivileged Thomas Kid in the district who did n’t already have system at dwelling . Opponents call into question whether laptops would meliorate scholar learning and baulk at the multi - million one dollar bill price tag .
Cobb County School Board officials be after to commence a search for Redden ’s replacement later this hebdomad .
