At the Success Network Policy Committee’s annual data deep dive on January 23, 2025, we reviewed a range of secondary, postsecondary, and employment metrics from the Illinois Report Card and the new Post-Secondary Employment Outcomes (PSEO) Explorer tool. While there were many things to celebrate, like recovery in high school graduation rates and increases in early college and pathways participation, disaggregated data signal that these developments are not even across different student groups.
