(2007-09-14) Nyc Cash Rewards For Students

New York City plans to reward students for getting good test scores, and even Atten Dance. (Educating Kids In Nyc, Extrinsic) The school incentive program is part of the mayor's wider antipoverty initiative, which also includes other cash payments, all raised privately, to influence behavior and reduce Poverty... Cash incentives for adults will include $150 a month for keeping a full-time job and $50 a month for having health insurance. Families will also receive as much as $50 per month per child for high attendance rates in school, as well as $25 for attending parent-teacher conferences... Similar, smaller programs for cash incentives to raise schoolchildren's performance have been put in place elsewhere in the country. In Chelsea, Mass., for instance, students can receive $25 for perfect attendance. And in Dallas, some schools hand over $2 for every book a child reads. How about paying for reaching graduation without Teenage Pregnancy?

Sept update: Joel Klein was on the Colbert Report discussing this plan. Interesting comments....