The district has more than 45,000 Chromebooks, said Karen Griffith, deputy superintendent of business and support services, during a Wednesday event. Previously, the district sent broken ...

For people who just want to have a laptop to send emails, browse the internet, or write essays, a Chromebook offers the ideal solution. Some of the best Chromebooks available today are renowned ...

One of the problems is, incidentally, that Chromebooks aren’t recycled. Just a third of these ChromeOS devices are actually broken down and recycled while the rest apparently end up in landfills ...

Schools are then forced to buy new devices because tossing the broken Chromebook is less of a hassle than fixing it. And since roughly only a third of the entire Chromebook is recyclable ...

The teens, who are part of Oakland Unified’s tech repair internship, have fixed broken screens ... haven’t been able to crack: expired Chromebooks. With a software death date baked into ...

Sherrill said the district has been replacing 30 to 40 broken Chromebooks a day. “You’re going to have those students break every one we give them because we’ve seen it,” he said.

"Instead of being like, 'Oh, it's broken, so, I don't have anyone to go to fix it.'" The district has issued over 130,000 brand new Chromebooks to students. To date, they've repaired 29,000 of them.