Thread: Your stimulus dollars at work

Detroit Public Schools will spend $49 million in federal money to push technology in the district, including distributing 40,000 new laptop computers to students in grades 6-12 for use in class, as well as more than 5,000 new desktop computers.
The computers are being funded by stimulus money under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009. Details are to be announced this morning by DPS emergency financial manager Robert Bobb.

The district already has started distributing the computers and expects to deliver them all by the end of this school year, said Kisha Verdusco, a DPS spokeswoman.

The massive technology infusion totals 50,000 pieces of equipment -- including 4,300 printer/scanners and more than 500 HP desktop computers for the 138 early childhood classrooms in the district.

The announcement about the infusion of new computers will be made at 9 a.m. at Davis Aerospace High School, 10200 Erwin St. School personnel also will demonstrate anti-theft features that will be used to safeguard and track the computers.

http://www.freep.com/article/20110104/N ... ulus-funds

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Now the underprivileged can deal their crack and hoe's right from the classroom

I went to the link you posted and saw this:

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• STORY: DPS to lay off school bus attendants who help special needs kids

So they buy a ton of laptops but lay off employees. Money well spent. pssh

http://www.freep.com/article/20101230/N ... ool-laptop

DPS says teacher tried to pawn school laptop

Detroit Public Schools officials say they have
suspended a Durfee Elementary School teacher
who allegedly tried to pawn her district-owned
laptop computer at one of the biggest, most
popular pawnshops in Detroit.

The DPS Office of the Inspector General
investigation said Karen Drysdale-Oriucci, a DPS
teacher since 1994, went to American Jewelry
and Loan on Greenfield Road on Wednesday to
pawn the netbook computer she received from
the district on Dec. 17.
Store staff refused to pay the teacher for the
netbook –- which is engraved with the DPS “I’m
Inâ€

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Entitlement and our tax dollars at work!! Maybe I can get a laptop too,mine is crap!!!

$49 million for one district WTF!. They are spending about $1k per device which 5k are printers and such? That is just insane. Our money at work to a city that supports illegals. Time to take all that stimulus money back and instead put it in the hands of the working class who will spend it if even hand it out at all.

Then WTF is up with this teacher suspended with pay. This is why unions need to be thrown out completely of the Public system. She is caught red handed trying to pawn school property. Should be an automatic fire with losing all future benefits and pension. However she will sit with pay for 10-12 months before getting her "hearing" costing hundreds of thousands of dollars to the school district.