Brian Mentzer

This strategic plan outlines the direction for Millstadt Community Consolidated School District #160, which serves the children and families of Millstadt, Illinois. The district is characterized by a strong community ethos, fostering collaborative learning environments across its unified campus, which includes Millstadt Primary Center (Pre-K to second grade) and Millstadt Consolidated School (third to eighth grade). The plan emphasizes a commitment to student growth, exploration, and community support, aiming to maintain a supportive school environment.

This policy outlines the District's approach to ensuring environments and opportunities for all students to practice healthy eating and physical activity behaviors throughout the school day. It establishes goals and procedures to provide access to healthy foods, offer quality nutrition education, create opportunities for physical activity before, during, and after school, promote student wellness, support healthy staff behaviors, engage the community, and maintain an infrastructure for policy management and monitoring.

This update from Illinois Vision 2020 outlines strategic plans and accomplishments centered on four pillars. It focuses on recruiting and retaining highly effective educators, fostering 21st-century learning through whole child development and technology integration, ensuring shared accountability with educator involvement in policymaking, and achieving equitable and adequate school funding, including addressing school safety and pension obligations. The objective is to make significant movement towards these educational policy goals by 2020.

This document explains the Evidence-Based Funding model, detailing how funds are distributed across four tiers to address educational adequacy and equity. The model prioritizes districts with the greatest need (Tier 1) by allocating the majority of new appropriations, followed by Tier 2, Tier 3, and Tier 4. It outlines specific percentage allocations and adequacy thresholds for each tier, aiming to fill funding gaps and ensure that no district experiences a reduction in state resources, even in cases of underfunding, through a per-pupil dollar amount reduction mechanism.

The strategic plan for Millstadt Community Consolidated School District #160 focuses on providing opportunities for all students to meet high academic achievement, recruiting and retaining highly effective staff members, maintaining high-quality facilities, and advancing school safety. It also emphasizes fiscal responsibility, offering a broad range of extra-curricular activities, and fostering a strong partnership between the community and the school district.