There have been a number of alternative programs that have emerged in the past couple of years and what we’ve done is we took a look at those programs to see how they’re operating. We had a consultant review the different programs. For the most part, as the Member states, they were running differently than what the regular full-time attendance programs were. A number of them were not attendance based, so we decided that we needed to come up with an approach on how we could support the alternative programs. We developed a formula that takes into account the staffing needs of the alternative programs as well as their O and M costs, and so we’ve adjusted the formula.
We do believe the alternative programs are good programs. They are meeting a critical need for students who cannot attend school on a full-time basis for various reasons. We did come up with a different approach for funding the alternative programs. Thank you.