That doesn't solve the problem (unless you're advocating piracy) - they're looking to distribute paid apps from the App Store on many devices. It does strike me that they're willing to pay for the iPads at $499 a pop but don't want to buy more than one copy of an app.
So in theory you can sync to as many iPads as you want? Didn't know that.
In his first first of the series the author states "I convened a meeting to suggest ways that we could get past this problem that everyone wanted access to computers in almost all classrooms almost all the time" - In places like Italy they make do with donated PCs running Linux, which works fine, rather than spending hundreds of dollars of an Ibad solution which doesn't work
Please, provide more details what kind of tests you did with "iBads" and why did you decide it does not work.