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District 205 Says New Attendance Plan is Working
The Galesburg School District says their new incentive based attendance and anti-truancy policy is working exactly the way they said it would.

District Assistant Superintendents Joel Estes and Guy Cahill presented a report to the District-205 Board on the plan called "Dream Big...Every Day...School" Monday night, and say in the first few months of this year, attendance averages out to be 94.8 percent, up 2.1 percent from last school year, and obviously higher than the 1 percent increase benchmark set when the $50,000 plan was approved before the school year began.

Estes says, however, there are district schools where attendance could always be much better.

"There is variance. It's somewhat more difficult to get high school students to attend regularly, although we're making progress in that area. I would also say it's important for us to see that while there is variance across the board in the attendance rates, you can pretty much see that every school is having great, positive improvements in attendance, when they compare themselves to last year's attendance rates."

Estes says, however, year over year enrollment is down over two-percent, and average daily attendance, the figure used to help figure state aid, is down fractionally.
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