Dive Brief:

• Teachers staged a small protest Tuesday of a $1-billion plan to provide iPads to every student and teacher in Los Angeles.
• About 15 teachers, parents and representatives from the teachers union rallied just before a meeting held by a Los Angeles Board of Education member.
• The protest included eating an iPad-shaped cake and teachers and parents holding up signs with the digits of the $1 billion price tag.

Dive Insight:

The protest came as it emerged that officials plan to spend $135 million for the next portion of the iPad rollout in the spring. The project had a spate of terrible publicity early on, but the longer it goes without more bad headlines and the more iPads get into teacher and student hands, the more the rollout may have momentum on its side.