Katie Marsal at AppleInsider talks about the trouble Apple is having keeping stores stocked with iPad. According to the article, Apple is prioritizing delivery to retail stores and customers over education customers:

But when April 2nd rolled around and regular Apple Store customers began receiving their shipping notifications, a number of those education pre-order customers were being informed that their orders were being placed on the back burner and wouldn’t ship to much later in the month.

Guest columnist at ZDNet, Matthew E. Rich, Ed. D., makes the case for the varied reasons why iPad is uniquely qualified to solve many education problems.

The Gibbon-Fairfax-Winthrop school district has decided to buy an iPad for every high school student. The $265,000 program will cover the iPads and wifi infrastructure upgrades to support Apple’s latest computing device.

As many university students and employees have already noticed, Apple is not offering a student discount on the iPad. Now it is coming out that iPad education orders are not being shipped with priority given to non-education customers.