KCTR: We’re Montana’s Own » Ohio http://catcountry1029.com We’re Montana’s Own Thu, 23 May 2013 23:29:34 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 Ohio School Is Paying Students For Showing Up In Class http://catcountry1029.com/school-pays-students/ http://catcountry1029.com/school-pays-students/#comments Fri, 17 Feb 2012 15:00:22 +0000 Shauna Wright http://thefw.com/?p=98367 Teen truancy is a real problem for a lot of schools, but especially so for the Dohn Community High School in Cincinnati. It only has a 14% graduation rate and has been deemed an “academic emergency” by the state of Ohio.

So the school is trying out a novel approach: it’s paying students to show up and behave themselves.

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