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Focusing on school principals\u2019 supervisors in the Dominican Republic\u2014school district officials\u2014and the urgency to get detailed information on curricular completion prior to the Covid-19 health emergency, we randomize reinforcement mechanisms to get district officials to incentivize the principals under their supervision to complete a task. After the official deadline for the completion of the task has passed, we create information channels (WhatsApp groups) to each district in which we provide them with a list of complying and non-complying schools. 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