This sounds disturbingly like a story I heard a few days ago on NPR about Bridge International Academy. It is apparently a for-profit school; the story was focused on a school in Nairobi. It uses what they called the school-in-a-box model, where the goal is to educate large volumes of kids for as little money as possible. The "teachers" all get the day's script via hand-held tablet computers and they literally read the lessons. They claim it is a successful model in the developing world, in part because they hire teachers who don't have college degrees (or much education at all, apparently).

Can't seem to make a link; the story is at NPR.org, entitled "Do For-profit Schools Give Poor Kenyans a Choice?"