Detroit Public Schools pay students up to $1K cash for showing up to class
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Detroit Public Schools brought back Perfect Attendance Pays program for 2026, offering high school students up to $1,000 in gift cards for attending class January 5 through March 20.
Joshua Q. Nelson is a reporter for Fox News Digital.
"Starting January 5, 2026, all DPSCD high school students will have the opportunity to earn $100 gift cards for every full week of perfect attendance, up to $1,000 in total rewards by the end of the program." Joshua focuses on politics, education policy ranging from the local to the federal level, and the parental uprising in education.
Detroit Public Schools have been hit hard by the chronic absentee epidemic, with 60.9% for the 2024-2025 school year. Joining Fox News Digital in 2019, he previously graduated from Syracuse University with a degree in Political Science and is an alum of the National Journalism Center and the Heritage Foundation's Young Leaders Program.
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