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Galesburg Attendance Plan Keeping Students in the Classroom
It didn't take long for the Galesburg School District to declare its new anti-truancy plan to be working, just like they said it would.

District 205 Assistant Superintendent for Curriculum and Instruction, Joel Estes, told the Galesburg School Board Tuesday night that district wide, attendance is indeed up the one percent targeted as a goal to be reached when $50,000 was spent on a marketing and incentive campaign called "Dream Big...Every Day...School!"

Estes says overall district attendance is near 95 percent. He says that's great news, and that there have been at least a dozen instances where police officers have picked up truant students and have taken them to school,

However, officials cautioned that enrollment is down this year. So while the target of increasing the overall attendance rate is achievable, they say they'll need that attendance rate to stay high in order to get about the same in state aid funding as promised last year, since funding is partially based on attendance.

Speaking of funding, district officials say between last fiscal year and the current one, the state currently owes District 205 around $2.5 million. They say that's in no way a sign to them that the state budget mess is close to being solved.
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