Superintendents back Vision 20/20

Superintendents back Vision 20/20

The goal of Vision 20/20 is to fulfill the promise of public education. We endorse Vision 20/20 because it provides a roadmap to the future for Illinois Education that ensures common sense policies and initiatives that will support all students, parents, schools, and communities in providing a public education leading to college and career readiness.

It provides a framework for serious conversation and action rather than politically charged rhetoric and the empty promise of continual "reform."

Vision 20/20's policy platform is divided into four main pillars:

• 21st Century Learning - Not just knowledge of reading and math, but providing the technology and tools for learning in today's world as well as a commitment to the "whole child";

• Highly Effective Educators - Policies to help attract, develop and retain the highest quality of teachers and administrators;

• Shared Accountability - Creating a shared accountability model that includes more input from educators, increases collaboration with legislators and restructures mandates to allow more flexibility for local school districts and communities; and

• Equitable and Adequate Funding - An evidence-based funding model that takes into account what it actually costs to educate a student in various parts of our state and utilizes research to identify those things that have the most impact on student success.

We invite you to learn more about Vision 20/20 by visiting the website at www.illinoisvision2020.org and to sign the petition in support of these policies. You also can follow the progress on Twitter at @ILVision2020. Changing the course of public education in Illinois can only happen with grassroots support, and we are asking you to help us fulfill the promise of public education to children in DuPage County and the more than 2 million schoolchildren in our state.

Michael Connolly

Keeneyville Elementary District 20

and superintendents of DuPage County