The Success Network’s Policy Committee provides space for local practitioners and policy leaders to collaborate and learn from one another, elevates local practice to inform state policy, and supports local practitioners to take advantage of policy windows. The Policy Committee is composed of a range of education, workforce, community-based organizations, advocacy groups, and state agency stakeholders spanning the P-20 pipeline.
Launched in December 2022, the Policy Committee focuses on new and emerging education and career policy efforts, including (but not limited to) issues around college and career pathways, work-based learning, early college credit, transitional instruction, and postsecondary transitions. Additionally, members share about promising local practices, engage with data, identify and advance emerging policy priorities, and identify opportunities to scale innovative policy in the field.
2026: Q3 Meeting
Monday, September 21, 9:30–11 a.m.
Virtual convening
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On March 13, Governor Pritzker signed an executive order establishing an interagency working group to develop a new statewide postsecondary attainment goal for 2040 that focuses on credentials of value and economic mobility for Illinoisans. This builds on more than 15 years of work to drive toward the state’s previous goal of 60% postsecondary attainment by 2025. In a new memo, we celebrate the Governor's action and offer insights and recommendations from our collective work supporting postsecondary attainment to the working group.
Despite offering numerous benefits to students in accelerating postsecondary planning and success, College and Career Pathway Endorsements (CCPE) have struggled to scale in districts across the state due to implementation hurdles for practitioners. A workgroup of the Illinois Education and Career Success Network’s Policy Committee focused on identifying these challenges to CCPE implementation and potential local and systemic solutions.
In implementing College and Career Pathway Endorsements (CCPE), practitioners have innovated creative solutions to mitigate challenges in partnerships, operations, and student engagement. This document highlights local practices that arioe from the collaborative problem-solving of a workgroup of the Illinois Education and Career Success Network Policy Committee.
Discover key insights and recommendations on overcoming transportation barriers to work-based learning for Illinois students in the latest memo from the Success Network Policy Committee. This memo outlines student perspectives, district strategies, and systemic solutions to enhance access to work-based learning opportunities.
The Policy Committee convened a workgroup to explore work-based learning transportation challenges and has published the first of two memos, which shed light on the significant transportation-related barriers students face in accessing work-based learning opportunities. This resource identifies and analyzes challenges impacting in-school youth at the school district, local, and system levels.
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