Instead of setting up costly field offices, iBwave's management figured the firm could expand more quickly and without a lot of regulatory headaches by
retaining local contractors who would sell as well as help customers implement the company's technology.
The Whittle scenario also assumes that school districts would
retain only a tiny percentage of federal, state, and
local revenues, perhaps 1 percent, and limit themselves to «monitoring and quality - control» oversight of schools; private
contractors would receive the other 99 percent.