Maryland Business

By: jackie.sauter

We had a lot of interest in recent news of a cash reward offered to HoCo high schoolers who “snitched” on the perpetrators of a food fight.

If you felt that a cash bribe for information was iffy, this might go entirely over the line in your estimation: students in Baltimore high schools will soon get a cash incentive to boost their scores on state graduation exams.

The AP reports:

Students who have failed at least one exam under Maryland’s High School Assessments will earn $25 for improving test performance by 5 percent. If they improve an additional 15 percent, they will get an additional $35. Another 20 percent improvement will earn an additional $50.

I wonder, now, what is the incentive to do well on the exam the first time?

JACKIE SAUTER, Multimedia Editor

Update: The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports here that Fulton County, Ga. students will be paid $8 per hour to attend after-school tutoring programs.