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CHICAGO (AP) - To motivate juniors on last April's assessment exams, Springfield High School offered coveted lockers, parking spaces near the door and free prom tickets as incentives for good scores.
But the incentives at the central Illinois school went unclaimed until earlier this month, when Illinois finally published its 2006 test scores — more than four months after they were due.
Critics pounced on Harcourt Assessment Inc., which lost most of its $44.5 million state contract over delays — caused by everything from shipping problems to missing test pages and scoring errors — that made Illinois the last state in the nation to release scores used to judge schools under the federal No Child Left Behind Act.
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