TAZEWELL REGIONAL OFFICE OF EDUCATION

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Project Stay - Truancy Prevention Program

Funded By:  ISBE TAOEP Grant

Contact Person:

Julie Hicks

414 Court Street - Suite 104

Phone: (309) 477-2290

Fax:      (309) 347-3735

Project Stay is an optional program serving K-12 with early assessment, intervention, and remediation of the factors creating the chronic truant^* and dropout. Caseworkers serving Fulton, Schuyler, and Tazewell Counties work with chronic truants, their families, schools, and appropriate agencies to establish regular attendance, normal school behaviors, and academic success.  Spoon River Academy and ICC Academy Alternative School offer alternative education for potential dropouts and retrieved dropouts for grades 9-12.  The goal of Project Stay is to  aid students and their families in re-establishing regular attendance, normal school habits, and academic success. 

*A Chronic Truant is any student subject to compulsory school attendance who is absent without valid cause for 10% or more of the previous 180 school days.