10 Thousand Dollars: It Pays to Be Perfect

by Edutopia Staff

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Amount a nine-year-old student from Hartford, Connecticut, won for perfect attendance. Meanwhile, Chicago students with no absences for the first three months of school are eligible for $500 worth of groceries or $1,000 toward a rent or mortgage payment.

With various forms of educational funding related to average daily attendance, schools are working hard to keep the numbers high, or suffer the fiscal consequences.

This article was also published in the April 2006 issue of Edutopia magazine .

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