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| | School Reform News: LA School District Outsources More Services (May 1998) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09) |
 | | The Los Angeles Unified School District recently approved contracts totaling almost $5 million to two private companies to provide supplemental education services for students in the nation's second largest school district, which has 682,000 students, 30,000 teachers, and 790 schools. |
 | | On April 14, Kaplan Educational Centers was awarded a $3.3 million contract to conduct after-school, extended-day programs in supplementary reading, math, language arts, and science education for approximately 6,000 students at 25 public schools and six Catholic schools beginning in May 1998. |
 | | School Reform News is a project of The Heartland Institute. |
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