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Sweetwater Union High School District spokesman Manuel Rubio shows one of the iPads purchased by the district. In 2012 the district bought almost 8,000 iPads for all seventh graders. May 26, 2017. Brandon Quester, inewsource
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iPads for seventh graders at Sweetwater school district MIA

Avatar photoAvatar photo by Andrea Lopez-Villafaña and Leonardo Castañeda June 22, 2017August 11, 2020 Why you can trust inewsource

Five years after the Sweetwater Union High School District board spent $4.5 million to put iPads in the hands of seventh graders, nearly all of the Apple tablets are classified as out of inventory, lost or stolen.

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