Schools are the ideal setting for combining state health and education goals for all children. Children and adolescents spend more time in schools than in any other environment outside of their homes. They also form foundational health habits during their school years. By emphasizing school health and wellness, state leadership can support both the health and education sectors in fulfilling their goals and ensuring a bright and prosperous future for Illinois. Illinois faces many challenges in securing a future that is economically and fiscally stable and prosperous. Education can, should, and does play an important role in helping to solve these challenges. But educators and schools cannot, and should not, bear the burden alone in facing and addressing these demands. This report contains recommendations of ways in which state leadership can support schools and their communities in creating conditions for improved school wellness and student health. The topics covered in these recommendations include: (1) education policy; (2) school health services; (3) healthy school food; and (4) healthy school environment.