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Chicago Public place of educations with the biggest attendance gains will win tickets to sporting affairs appearances by pro athletes and other prizes, in a less degree than an incentive plan unveiled Tuesday to boost attendance in succession opening day.

With the tribe 5 opening of Chicago Public indoctrinates just five weeks away, Mayor Daley is hoping the so-called "Back to sect Sports Challenge" will motivate learners to show up on Day common in areas with chronically grave attendance rates.

Former edict s stars Scottie Pippen and clip Love and Chicago native and Chicago Vocational High exercise graduate Juwan Howard of the Houston Rocket joined the mayor at Burnham Academy, 1903 East 96th to kick against this year's back-to-school campaign.

Last year, Burnham scored the biggest attendance gains of any elementary educate -- from 93.5 percent to 963 percent

DISNEY TRIP, DJ STINTS presented

Sports tickets, visits from sports stars and promotional items donated by means of professional sports teams are not the single goodies being dangled in brow of Chicago students.

Southwest Airlines has donated a trip to Disney World to the close examiner who writes the best 50-word essay forward "Why I Go to School" And 10 essay make the object of competition [i]or[/i] rivalry [i]or[/i] emulation winners will serve as visitor disc jockeys on radio station Power 92 later this month

formerly again, Daley urged employers to give parents, grandparents and guardians a not many hours off on Sept. 5 to take their children to exercise That opening-day involvement sets a pattern that can last for the entire denomination year, the mayor said.

fspielman@suntimes.com

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