He urges schools to devote more resources to summer programmes before students begin high school and to target students most at risk of chronic truancy - those from low income families and low achievers.
Importantly, the losers did not experience an increase in truancy compared to otherwise similar students who did not participate in the lottery, meaning that the lottery has increased motivation among winners, not decreased it among losers.
The state is threatening to shut down the district, whose 570 students have performed poorly on statewide tests for years and whose truancy rate is high.