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Urbana School District 116 board adopts 2025–30 strategic plan with targets for reading, discipline and equity
Summary
After two years of research and community input, the Urbana School District 116 board approved a five-year strategic plan that sets numeric goals for student achievement, disciplinary disproportionality and districtwide priorities including a new 'portrait of a graduate.' The plan passed by roll call vote at the May 5 study session.
The Urbana School District 116 Board of Education voted May 5 to adopt a five-year strategic plan that sets measurable targets for student learning, behavior and equity across the district.
The plan, presented over more than two hours of discussion, aims to lift English language arts (ELA) proficiency on the Illinois Assessment for Readiness (IAR) to 30% and math proficiency to 27% by the 2029–30 school year, with interim key performance indicators for each year. Board members and district staff said the targets are based on recent IAR baselines (ELA ~12.5% and math ~9.2% for 2023–24) and MAP testing trends.
District leaders framed the strategic plan as a data-driven roadmap. The plan follows three phases of work: preliminary analysis of district…
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