>> reporter: only straight as, a san francisco student a bad rollout from the ipad program. l.a. unified school district hoped to be a model for the nation. they hoped to pass out 650,000 free devices to students and teachers over a one billion dollar program. but the program has been mired in controversy. hundreds of kids breached security firewalls, very first week. dozens of these ipads have mysteriously gone missing. there have been many more questions whether teachers were even adequately trained to integrate devices in the classrooms. l.a. superintendent insists the program is important to bridge the economic divide in this district with some of the nation's poor students but parents and educators say they will support the plan only if it is done right. >> we've made a very, very committed push that we were going to bridge a digital divide and we are going to deal with the pernicious inequity in access to technology for students. >> making sure this is being