So far, the city has spent more than $2 billion.
The city spent $12 million on such students in 2002-3, the most recent school year for which data is available.
Work continued, and the city spent $325,000 in the fall of 1998.
The city is spending $500,000 a year on the phone program, she says.
It is one that the city has already spent eight years and more than $1 million trying to answer.
The city spent nearly $140 million on the new library.
The city is spending only about a third of that.
The city has already spent about $1 million testing those 15,000.
The city, state and federal governments together spent more than $150 million on the project.
The city will spend about $8 million on the program, he said, some of which can be used for that purpose.