(The Center Square) – A group of Illinois education organizations have unveiled their plan for the future of Illinois schools.
It’s called Vision 2030 and revolves around three education pillars, including future-focused learning, shared accountability and predictable funding.
Brent Clark, executive director of the Illinois Association of School Administrators, said Vision 2030 was developed with four goals in mind.
“We want to keep students safe, we want to have high-quality professionals in front of them as teachers, we want to enhance their post-secondary opportunities and the success they can have from those opportunities, and finally, we want to effectively measure what’s working in schools in a timely manner so we can make adjustments and make it even better,” said Clark.
More than 100 people helped develop Vision 2030, aided by surveys completed by more than 1,000 educators around the state.
The plan proposes measuring student success over time rather than one annual standardized test.