Schools offer prizes for attendance Tickets lure kids, but critic calls them 'doggie biscuits'

Would a free seat at a Chicago Bulls game make you want to go toschool?

Tickets to sporting events and coupons for Walgreens drugstoresare among the incentives that will be offered to Chicago public highschool students this year to get them to show up for class moreoften.

Some kids likened the idea to bribes, but Chicago Schools CEO ArneDuncan said he was merely trying to "incent improvement."

Virtually every year since Mayor Daley won control of the city'spublic schools, the system has offered an opening day plan to attackthe vexing problem of poor attendance.

This year proved no different.

On Tuesday, Daley and Duncan unveiled plans for a series …