Education: Statistics & Standards

Official website with information about Illinois teacher licensure tests including content area, language proficiency, and LBS II. Links for test prep, registration, and posted scores are also here.

A good place to start if you are considering pursuing licensure in Illinois. You will find links to information on steps to Illinois teacher licensure, the ELIS system login, state learning standards, the Illinois report card, and ISBE career opportunities.

The Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) was signed by President Obama on December 10, 2015, as an update to No Child Left Behind. This bipartisan measure reauthorizes the 50-year-old Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA), the nation’s national education law and longstanding commitment to equal opportunity for all students.

The Common Core of Data (CCD) is a program of the U.S. Department of Education's National Center for Education Statistics that annually collects fiscal and non-fiscal data about all public schools, public school districts and state education agencies in the United States.

The Nation’s Report Card contains the published results of the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), the largest continuing and nationally representative assessment of students' knowledge of mathematics, reading, science, and writing.
Teachers, principals, parents, policymakers, and researchers all use NAEP results to assess progress and develop ways to improve education in the United States.

The National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) is the primary federal entity for collecting and analyzing data related to education. You can search data on individual districts or schools, explore and manipulate NAEP data, search and compare postsecondary education institutions, and view intersections of educational, social, and economic conditions in a map tool.

School enrollment captures the population who report being enrolled in a regular school. A regular school advances a person towards an elementary school certificate, high school diploma, or college, university, or professional school (such as law or medicine) degree.