The Illinois State Board of Education (ISBE) develops and maintains a continuing five-year comprehensive strategic plan for elementary and secondary education in accordance with Public Act 93-1036. Agency staff members revisit the plan each year to review the agency's accomplishments and to refine the agency's strategies. The State Board amended its strategic plan in September 2015 to reflect a new vision for public education, establish a new mission, and identify refocused goals. ISBE's five key areas of focus are the strategies the agency is employing to make progress toward its goals: (1) Money: Establish an adequate and equitable education finance system; (2) Quality: Common definition of, and fair access to, quality education; (3) Autonomy: Maximize district autonomy to provide quality education to all families; (4) Competency: Encourage competency-based learning; and (5) Community: Districts and schools as centers of healthy communities. [This report was published by the Illinois State Board of Education's Office of Communications. For the 2017 report, see ED618519.]