The National Education Project is currently seeking one medium-size city in America to be a "demonstration model" for the nation; that is, one city willing to mount 20 programs, which, in turn, will provide 145,000 hours of tutoring to children in that city's elementary schools in a five-year period (that is, 7,250 hours of tutoring produced by each program x 20 programs).

After five years of tutoring on this scale, the demonstration city will have, on the reading and math test scores alone, the finest elementary school system in the nation.

This 20-program initiative will raise reading and math test scores across the entire city, and show what reliable tutors on a massive scale can do for any city in America.

It costs a total of $1,500,000 to place 20 programs into operation in one city. Of this amount, $1,000,000 will be awarded in 20 grants to the colleges in that city over a five-year period (that is, 20 grants x $50,000 per grant). The remaining $500,000 will be used by the National Education Project to underwrite the administrative cost of operating 20 programs in one city during the five-year grant period.

This is at a cost of less than $11.00 per hour of tutoring produced (that is, $1,500,000 divided by 145,000 hours of tutoring produced by 20 programs in five years).

For each $50,000 grant received by a college (a college may receive more than one grant), the college will agree to field a total of 145 undergraduates during the five-year grant period. As a result, 20 programs will provide a total of 2,900 tutors to the elementary schools of one city during a five-year period (that is, 20 grants x 145 tutors per grant).

As an indication of the remarkable effectiveness of the undergraduates from this Project, please see Results of the Tutoring for several actual evaluations written by classroom teachers in three cities.

The host city will see a number of clear and compelling benefits:

1. An increase in the number of people (i.e., the newly literate) who are employable in the city's technological economy;
   
   
2. A concomitant decrease in the number of people in the city who require public financial support of all sorts;
   
   
3. An expanded tax base created by the city’s newly employable workers, providing more funds for essential city services, such as health care for the elderly; and
   
   
4. The creation of a better educated, more efficient workforce for all of the city’s corporations, giving the entire corporate community a decided cost advantage over competitors in other cities.