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Superstar Nicki Minaj surprised more than 400 students and acted as the "Principal for the Day" at Collins Academy High School.

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Superstar Nicki Minaj surprised more than 400 students and acted as the "Principal for the Day" at Collins Academy High School. Minaj's visit is one of many rewards for the students and teachers who won the Get MotivatED Challenge -- a six week competition to improve daily attendance rates nationwide. Minaj presented three exemplary students each with $10000 college scholarships from Comcast, helped teach a freshman English class, and joined MTV's Sway Calloway in an all-school assembly to celebrate the students' and teachers' accomplishments

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New high school scholarship birthed in the west

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"Barack Obama & the DC School Voucher Program: The president says he wants to do 'what's best for kids.' So why won't he save a proven program that helps low-income students?" Mercedes Campbell is one of the 1700 students in the Washington, DC Opportunity Scholarship Program, a school-voucher program authorized by Congress in 2004. The program gives students up to $7500 to attend whatever school their parents choose. For kids like Mercedes, who now attends Georgetown Visitation Prep, the DC voucher program is a way out of one of the worst school districts in the country