In 2011, the Edinburg district asked the agency to investigate one of the state's largest tutoring providers.
But focusing on the rocky start misses the big picture, said Jeffrey Cohen, president of Sylvan Education Solutions, one of the largest tutoring companies.
E-mails to Gov. Rick Perry's office, obtained by The Tribune through an open records request, indicated that lobbyists hired by the largest tutoring provider in the state, Tutors With Computers, pushed for such a requirement.
In China, where private tutorial schools were unknown until the economy opened up in the 1990s, New Oriental Education and Technology has grown to become one of the largest tutoring schools in Asia with around 2.4 million students this year.
If homeschool tutoring is your main business, you need to research the competition, find out how popular homeschooling is in your area and see what larger tutoring chains you're competing against.
Sylvan is the largest paid tutoring company in the U.S. by market share, with more than 800 locations.
Today, WyzAnt has quietly become one of the largest online tutoring platforms in the U.S., serving 500,000 tutors and over one million students.
The research, conducted by an independent evaluator, focused on the Pre-K program of the Minnesota Reading Corps, the largest AmeriCorps tutoring program.
And Jeffrey Cohen, the president and chief executive of Sylvan Learning Centers, which operates one of the largest chains of tutoring franchises in the country, said the lack of financing had been a big blow to less wealthy families.
