The Illinois State Board of Education's 2014 Comprehensive Strategic Plan is the agency's 10th such report as required by Public Act 93-1036. The first plan focused on ISBE's three primary goal areas: enhancing literacy, improving educator quality for all children and expanding data-driven management and school support practices. Since 2005, agency staff members revisit the plan each year to review the agency's accomplishments and to update and refine our strategies to ensure every student in the state is prepared for success after high school graduation. In recent years, the State Board of Education's strategy has focused on four critical areas to achieve these goals for Illinois schoolchildren. These initiatives are: (1) Implementing internationally benchmarked student learning standards and a new and improved assessment system aligned to college and career readiness standards; (2) Establishing a longitudinal data system that will allow us to collect student data throughout our pre-K to 20 system and ultimately, into the work force; (3) Implementing program and policy changes to improve teacher and school leader effectiveness; and (4) Targeting statewide interventions and support to our lowest performing schools and districts. [This report was published by the Illinois State Board of Education's Public Information Division. For the 2013 report, see ED618512.]