[uw_rob]

Looking around on Google, I see that each child in Oakland has a cost of around >10k/year of education (https://educationdata.org/public-education-spending-statisti...). These Chromebooks cost $200, so $50/year with 4 year lifespan. This is <0.5% of yearly education costs. Definitely not the biggest source of waste.

[rahimnathwani]

You're technically correct: OUSD does spend more than $10k/student/year.

It spends >$25k/student/year: http://www.ed-data.org/district/Alameda/Oakland-Unified

So $50/student is only 0.2% of the budget.

The problem is that this 0.2% doesn't benefit teachers' unions.

[nerdbert]

Not the biggest source of fiscal waste but a huge source of e-waste which is almost impossible to thoroughly recycle.