Illinois Title II State Report Card
for the 2006-2007 Academic Year
The Illinois State Board of Education is required by Section
207 of the Title II of Higher Education Act, to prepare
this
report on teacher preparation for the 2006-2007 academic
year.
Title II of the 1998 Amendments to the Higher Education Reauthorization
Act imposes accountability expectations on institutions of
higher education that prepare teachers and the states in which
they operate. The law establishes a three-tier reporting system.
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Each teacher training institution is required to submit
specific information about its programs and program
assessment results to the state in which it is located
and to various publics. The Annual Institutional Reports
are due April 7, 2008.
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Each state must report to the U.S. Department of Education
and to the citizens of the state regarding teacher
education
polices and results. The Illinois State Report Card
is to be filed by October 10, 2008.
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The Secretary of Education must use the separate state
responses in the development of a report to the Congress
on teacher preparation. The congressional report is
due in April 2009.
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Title II State Report Card Requirements
The Title II State Report Card requires narrative responses
to a series of questions posed by the federal government,
data on multiple accountability indicators and, whenever possible,
a document reference or a web address. The information in
this report is organized as follows.
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