Dive Brief:

• Los Angeles school officials do not have full access to the iPad-based curriculum purchased in June.
• They cannot view the curriculum because Pearson, the company that designed it, is bidding on another contract with the district and rules place limits on contact between the school district and bidders. 
• At first, the curriculum could not be viewed in full because it was incomplete, and then the school district was told Apple needed to give permission to view it. Finally, the bidding rules kicked in and made it impossible to contact Pearson.

Dive Insight:

There is one possibility: The school board member overseeing the project could obtain the curriculum via the state, which must approve it. But even if she did that, district rules would prohibit her from commenting on the curriculum. The same rules that ban contact with Pearson ban board members' public comments on the company during the bidding process.