LA Unified oversight panel rejects $42 million for computers

The Los Angeles school district's bond oversight panel rejected a move by officials to spend an additional $42 million on new computers, including purchases under a controversial -- and recently suspended -- technology contract. The bond panel rejected the plan, saying that LA Unified had not proved that it urgently needed these devices. The purchase request is the latest development in a $1.3-billion project that was supposed to provide computers for every student, teacher and campus administrator in the nation's second-largest school system.