Springfield, IL (CAPITOL CITY NOW) – State lawmakers are about to get a bunch of ideas on how to improve K-12 education in Illinois.

Illinois Association of School Administrators executive director Brent Clark sums up Vision 2030: “We want kids to be safe, we want them to have a well-trained professional in front of them in their classroom, we want them to have opportunities after high school, and we want to be able to effectively measure what we’re doing.”

He says to find out why we need Vision 2030, just go back ten years.

“We were sort of in a conundrum back then with a lot of legislative issues, a lack of funding, and we came together as multiple statewide organizations, and we developed Vision 2020,” Clark says. “Vision 2020 produced what we now know as the evidence-based funding model.”

Clark, whose group was one of eight organizations brainstorming Vision 2030, says about 38 recommendations are in the report, six to eight of which a year will be presented to lawmakers.