{"id":19273,"date":"2024-01-11T14:14:08","date_gmt":"2024-01-11T11:14:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/19273\/23-million-worth-of-apple\/"},"modified":"2024-01-11T14:14:09","modified_gmt":"2024-01-11T11:14:09","slug":"23-million-worth-of-apple","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/?p=19273","title":{"rendered":"$23 million worth of Apple iPads, laptops were \u2018lost or stolen\u2019 in a single school year in Chicago"},"content":{"rendered":"

$23 million worth of Apple iPads, laptops were \u2018lost or stolen\u2019 in a single school year in Chicago\u060c<\/p>\n

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As Amazing Grace says: \u201cOnce I was lost, but now I am found\u201d<\/span> \u2013 well, not exactly. Not in Chicago.<\/p>\n

Usually when we put words like “lost”, “stolen” and “Apple” together in the same sentence, it's a story with a happy ending that involves AirTag and how Apple's tracker helps many people to get back what belongs to them.<\/p>\n

This time, however, the story is a little different: once again, we'll put “lost”, “stolen” and “Apple” in the same sentence, but a happy ending is unlikely.<\/p>\n

There is a report from the Chicago Public Schools Inspector General: More than 70,000 laptops and iPads were lost or stolen during the 2021-22 school year (via WGN-TV<\/a>). This has Chicago City Council members questioning the process that has failed and lost millions of dollars in technology.<\/p>\n

What do the numbers say?<\/h2>\n

The Inspector General's report has the exact numbers: During the 2021-22 school year, 77,505 devices were reported lost or stolen in the Chicago Public Schools system. In total, that's $23 million worth of laptops, hotspots and iPads. For reference, between 2020 and 2023, Chicago Public Schools spent $308 million on 311,000 laptops.<\/p>\n

Brother and sister 'lost or found' 9-10 devices<\/h2>\n

The Inspector General's report notes that there are three dozen schools where every device is missing: “It's just wasteful (and) that's why our office is here and it's is what we do,\u201d said CPS Inspector General Will Fletcher. \u201cOur work revealed an incident in which two siblings, a brother and sister at school, lost 9 to 10 devices between them, (and) there is no record or indication that the district contacted the family and mentioned that this was a problem. trying to figure out what happened.<\/p>\n

The Inspector General's report also noted that the district did little to try to find them. The report shows CPS spent about $2.6 million on software to track and recover the computers, but did not use them.<\/p>\n

The General Inspectorate also accuses the school management, believing that it should have taken measures after the disappearance of the first \u201ctwo or three\u201d devices: \u201cThis is not doing our young people any favors, because we now have to find out how increase this amount. money. It was a waste.<\/p>\n

The district reports having collected 12,000 laptops so far. CPS also estimates the current depreciated value of the devices at $2.5 million, saying the majority of them are now more than five years old, and many others have been “discarded” and marked as lost.\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

$23 million worth of Apple iPads, laptops were \u2018lost or stolen\u2019 in a single school year in Chicago\u060c As Amazing Grace says: \u201cOnce I was lost, but now I am found\u201d \u2013 well, not exactly. Not in Chicago. Usually when we put words like “lost”, “stolen” and “Apple” together in the same sentence, it's a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19274,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[103,5117,1931,279,2942,1727,9046,280,4658,201,540],"class_list":["post-19273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology","tag-apple","tag-chicago","tag-ipads","tag-laptops","tag-lost","tag-million","tag-school","tag-single","tag-stolen","tag-worth","tag-year"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19273","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19273"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19273\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19275,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19273\/revisions\/19275"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/19274"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}