AP EXCLUSIVE: US faces back-to-school laptop shortage
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Tom Baumgarten, superintendent of the Morongo County School District, looks at a laptop with a cracked screen at Twentynine Palms Junior High School, Tuesday, Aug. 18, 2020, in Twentynine Palms, Calif. Baumgarten was set to order 5,000 Lenovo Chromebooks in July when his vendor called him off, saying Lenovos were getting "stopped by a government agency because of a component from China that's not allowed here," he said. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)Tom Baumgarten, superintendent of the Morongo County School District, walks down a dirt road near the district offices, Tuesday, Aug. 18, 2020, in Twentynine Palms, Calif. Morongo County School District is in Californias Mojave Desert, where all 8,000 students qualify for free lunch and most need computers for distance learning. Im very concerned that Im not going to be able to get everyone a computer, he said. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)Jason Rand cuts open the shrink wrap around a pallet of Lenovo Chromebook laptops as they sit in a Denver Public Schools warehouse after arriving Friday, Aug. 21, 2020, in Denver. Schools across the United States are facing shortages and long delays in getting this years most crucial back-to-school accessories: the laptops and other equipment needed for online learning. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski)A handful of Lenovo Chromebook laptops sit in shipping boxes in an empty warehouse used for distribution by Denver Public Schools, Friday, Aug. 21, 2020, in Denver. Schools across the United States are facing shortages and long delays in getting this years most crucial back-to-school accessories: the laptops and other equipment needed for online learning. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski)Tom Baumgarten, superintendent of the Morongo County School District, right, talks to a family at Twentynine Palms Junior High School, Tuesday, Aug. 18, 2020, in Twentynine Palms, Calif. The district has about 4,000 old laptops that can serve roughly half of the students, Baumgarten said. "This is going to be like asking an artist to paint a picture without paint. You can't have a kid do distance learning without a computer," he said. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)Dennis Ralph, warehouse manager for Denver Public Schools, uses a forklift to guide a pallet of Lenovo Chromebook laptops to be checked in after the shipment arrived, Friday, Aug. 21, 2020, in Denver. Schools across the United States are facing shortages and long delays in getting this years most crucial back-to-school accessories: the laptops and other equipment needed for online learning. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski)Jason Rand pulls off the wrap on four pallets of Lenovo Chromebook laptops in a Denver Public Schools warehouse after they arrived, Friday, Aug. 21, 2020, in Denver. Schools across the United States are facing shortages and long delays in getting this years most crucial back-to-school accessories: the laptops and other equipment needed for online learning. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski)Dennis Ralph, warehouse manager for Denver Public Schools, uses a forklift to guide pallets of Lenovo Chromebook laptops into the empty storage facility after the computers arrived, Friday, Aug. 21, 2020, in Denver. Schools across the United States are facing shortages and long delays in getting this years most crucial back-to-school accessories: the laptops and other equipment needed for online learning. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski)Four pallets of Lenovo Chromebook laptops sit in a Denver Public Schools warehouse after arriving, Friday, Aug. 21, 2020, in Denver. Schools across the United States are facing shortages and long delays in getting this years most crucial back-to-school accessories: the laptops and other equipment needed for online learning. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski)
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Tom Baumgarten, superintendent of the Morongo County School District, looks at a laptop with a cracked screen at Twentynine Palms Junior High School, Tuesday, Aug. 18, 2020, in Twentynine Palms, Calif. Baumgarten was set to order 5,000 Lenovo Chromebooks in July when his vendor called him off, saying Lenovos were getting "stopped by a government agency because of a component from China that's not allowed here," he said. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)
