ASPIRA Haugen Middle School
CHARTER SCHOOL OFFERS $100 COUPON FOR EACH NEW STUDENT, July 19, 2010, Chicago Daily Observer
Charter schools, their advocates say, are designed to offer an alternative for parents and kids who have given up on regular Chicago Public Schools.
Just give us a chance, they say. Customers will be lined up out the door to move to something better.
Sometimes, maybe.
But not in the case of one Albany Park charter school. Aspira-Haugan Middle School has decided to offer what amounts to a $100 bounty for every kid lured through its doors.
The student must "attend through September to qualify for the $100 gift card," the small print on