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.
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