Should students be bribed into attending classes?

Are truancy officers about to get help in fighting absenteeism? According to the New York Post, the Ohio legislature is considering a bipartisan pilot program that would make cash transfers to select kindergarten and ninth-grade students if they show up a whopping 90% of the time. (One of my friends remarked that the $1.5 million project is called a pilot program because it makes as much sense a...

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