They offer the schools a lower price so that they can get their foot in the door at the schools. They have an opportunity to sell lots of subscriptions if they can get into the schools. I approached the school about buying my dd's subscription and letting me reimburse them, but in the end I convinced our GT coordinator to buy some licenses for the district.
I have talked to the people at ALEKS about giving our GT group a discount, but the rep said it had to be a school. Maybe a homeschool group could get a discount. Even at the individual rate it is less expensive than EPGY and Larson's Math no longer sells to individuals. My dd is also using a program called First in Math at school. It is a great program geared to higher level thinking, but you cannot buy it as an individual. We need to somehow combine our buying power.
