KY would pay about $10,000 for every student for new math program

[Roland99]

Math aid program would be expensive
STATE WOULD PAY ABOUT $300,000 FOR EVERY 30 STUDENTS
http://www.kentucky.com/mld/kentucky/news/14974968.htm

State education officials are planning to spend $2 million to help middle school students with math, but much of that money could be spent on a controversial and expensive computer program that has not been approved by state math specialists.

The I Can Learn program, created by a private New Orleans company, has made headlines both for its disputed effectiveness and for its political connections, which have brought it millions of dollars in federal earmarks. It is also very expensive, costing about $300,000 for every 30 students.

State legislators learned about I Can Learn through Hunter Bates, a lobbyist in Washington and Louisville who is the former chief of staff for U.S. Sen. Mitch McConnell, and was briefly Gov. Ernie Fletcher's running mate.

The pilot program will try out two programs at about six schools around the state, though it's unclear which ones. The details of the program are apparently being handled directly by Education Commissioner Gene Wilhoit, who declined to comment for this article.

That's one hell of an expensive band-aid to fix the "deficiencies" in meeting the idiotic NCLB standards
http://www.courier-journal.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060708/NEWS01/607080415/1008/NEWS01