D.C. students being paid for summer school

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The District is paying 305 students with poor academic and behavioral records to attend summer school, The Washington Examiner has learned.

The rising ninth-graders are earning $5.25 an hour to participate in the "Summer Bridge" program, which targets students identified by D.C. Public Schools as less likely than their peers to graduate high school within four years.

The 95 students who voluntarily signed up for the summer school program will receive half of an elective credit. But to fill the 400-student session with at-risk students, DCPS reached out to the Department of Employment Services. More than 300 students flagged by DCPS and who had signed up for the Summer Youth Employment Program were told that school would be their jobs this summer.

- more @

http://washingtonexaminer.com/d.c.-students-being-paid-for-summer-school/article/2503405

If you look at the number of new hire teachers and administrators in the last 10 years all across the country, and the great increases in educational spending...

...you might think that student academic performance would relatively increase, too.

Of course, though, you'd be wrong.

It must be nice being a taxpayer in DC and having all that money to waste...

...can you imagine how bummed those kids are who signed-up to work this summer and now have to go back to school?