LOS ANGELES – Los Angeles Unified School District’s massive, $1.3 billion iPads-for-all program was doomed to fail from the start, according to a federal report.

The pet project of former LAUSD superintendent John Deasy, who framed it as a “civil rights” initiative, lacked financial resources, planning for how the devices would be used and the program evaluated, proper training for teachers, and needed infrastructure upgrades to make it a success, according to a review by the U.S. Department of Education, the Los Angeles Times reports.

Deasy resigned under pressure last fall, and the federal review was conducted at the request of the new superintendent, Ramon C. Cortines. It was presented to the L.A. school board last month, and published recently by 4LAKids blogger Scott Folsom, who sits on the district’s school bond committee, according to the news site.

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“The report found that L.A. Unified was too heavily focused on the iPad instead of being open to less-expensive alternatives,” the L.A. Times reports. “In addition, it concluded that teachers weren’t provided enough training and that senior managers were unable or unwilling to communicate concerns and address issues before they became serious problems.”

And there were plenty of serious problems.

The first came in 2013 when the district doled out the devices to students in 47 schools and they quickly learned how to bypass firewall software designed to prevent them from surfing social media, playing games and going to websites they shouldn’t.

The initial roll out was also plagued with inadequate internet access, teachers who were not prepared to implement the devices into lesson plans, and criticisms over the district’s use of construction funds to buy the expensive iPads, according to media reports.

The federal report highlighted those issues, as well as district administrators’ reluctance to consider lower-cost alternatives and free educational resources, alleging that the district was “heavily dependent on a single commercial product for providing digital learning resources, which has plagued the project since the initial rollout,” the L.A. Times quoted from the report.

Much of the federal report mirrored findings from an L.A. Unified school board panel that convened to analyze the iPad-for-all initiative last year.

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Monica Ratliff, chairwoman of that panel, said the federal report offered “a number of common-sense suggestions … such as better planning, better testing and evaluation of technology and better training,” the L.A. Times reports.

Deasy left the district in October amid heightened criticisms over the iPad debacle, which was fueled by Ratliff’s report and later emails that were discovered that revealed Deasy and a senior deputy were tight with executives at Apple and Pearson, the software provider for the contract.

The program is now under review by the FBI, which seized about 20 boxes of documents from the district’s headquarters last month, according to the Los Angeles Daily News.

As a result, Cortines canceled the Apple contract.

“I thought about it and I just feel certainly with the FBI investigation, as it relates to procedures, I’m not going to use or continue to use a contract that might be questioned later,” he said.

Months earlier, in June, he announced plans to move away from Apple to offer schools other computer options, like Microsoft’s Surface Pro 2, two different Cromebook models and others, Apple Insider reports.