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Data Quality Campaign, 2014
Publicly reporting timely, actionable, and comprehensible data is one of the most powerful ways states can promote transparency, strengthen accountability, and ensure that everyone with a stake in education--parents, educators, policymakers, researchers, and members of the public and press-- has access to the information they need to make good…
Descriptors: State Policy, Parents, Empowerment, Accountability
ACT, Inc., 2011
Annually, ACT provides a snapshot of the college and career readiness of ACT-tested high school graduates. This report is offered as a service to inform policymakers and practitioners about selected indicators of effectiveness and how that translates into readiness. It is designed to stimulate discussion, inquiry, and action. This report for the…
Descriptors: Achievement Need, Achievement Rating, Achievement Tests, Academic Achievement
Hess, G. Alfred, Jr.; And Others – 1991
This report provides an analysis of current inequities in school finance in Illinois, the historical roots of those inequities, and an analysis of alternative options for funding primary and secondary education. An introduction briefly describes the basis for the constitutional challenge to the current funding system. The next section describes…
Descriptors: Economically Disadvantaged, Educational Equity (Finance), Educational Finance, Elementary Secondary Education
Ferratier, Louis; Helmich, Edith – 1983
On account of concern about declining achievement levels of high school graduates and proposed state legislation increasing graduation requirements to address this concern, this report analyzes current and proposed high school graduation requirements in Illinois, based on data compiled from local school documents, and compares the data to…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Accountability, Achievement Rating, Competency Based Education
Illinois State Board of Education, Springfield. – 1983
As part of a comprehensive study of all mandates placed by the state of Illinois on elementary and secondary education, an analysis was undertaken of the school day/school year mandate in its historical perspective, inquiring into its original purpose, how well that purpose has been served, whether the mandate is still needed, and whether a…
Descriptors: Core Curriculum, Educational Improvement, Educational Objectives, Elementary Secondary Education
Illinois Community Coll. Board, Springfield. – 1991
In this nine-part report to Illinois' General Assembly, the Illinois Community College Board (ICCB) reviews Board powers and duties, and systemwide goals, financial resources, student characteristics and outcomes, educational programs, training and economic development activities, programs for special populations, and current issues of importance…
Descriptors: Articulation (Education), Budgets, College Outcomes Assessment, Community Colleges