Join the League of Women Voters on for a public discussion of how to achieve the state’s “60 by 25” goal – raising college completion rates from 41% of adult Illinoisans with postsecondary education to 60% by the year 2025. Currently, in Illinois only about 20 out of every 100 students entering high school will move on to earn a degree within three to six years of high school graduation.
Guest speaker Lieutenant Governor Sheila Simon is urging lawmakers, school leaders and teachers to make data-driven, student-centered reforms that could lead to higher graduation and completion rates.
This event kicks off the Oak Park River Forest League’s fall agenda, when the organization will be participating in a national study on the role of the federal government in public education. The League is developing a position on the upcoming reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) which included in 2001 the “No Child Left Behind” (NCLB) provision.
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As the Governor's point person on education reform, Simon has embarked on a statewide Complete College tour this year, visiting dozens of community colleges and addressing lawmakers, school leaders and teachers, urging them to make data-driven, student-centered reforms that could lead to higher graduation and completion rates.
Illinois leaders want 60 percent of all working-age adults to hold a college degree or certificate by 2025, up from about 40 percent today. In order to reach this goal, Illinois' postsecondary institutions must increase the number of graduates statewide by 4,400 students each year, for a total of 600,000 additional graduates by 2025, according to the state's 2010 Complete College America self-assessment report.
