Micah Walker, BridgeDetroitFrom the AuthorRetentionCan financial incentives and holding students back improve attendance in Detroit?The city's school district is employing some new methods in its fight to improve attendance, including paying students up to $1,000 each for perfect attendance and holding back students with extremely high rates of chronic absenteeism.Success StoriesDetroit Public Schools' early enrollment figures show promiseChalkbeat DetroitSuperintendent Nikolai Vitti said during a school board meeting that 53,044 K-12 students are enrolled.Page 1 of 1
