105 ILCS 5/34-8.11: Evaluation criteria.

In determining whether to grant Learning Zone designation, the board shall consider the following factors:

(1) The extent to which the application demonstrates that improved student learning will be the paramount priority and outcome;

(2) Proposed adoption of high, rigorous standards of achievement and outcome for all students and staff;

(3) Proposed use of shared, collegial decision-making;

(4) Creative, flexible, and innovative proposed restructuring of the applicant attendance centers to create student-centered learning environments;

(5) Parental and community integration and involvement;

(6) Development of collaborative relationships with health and human services agencies;

(7) Ability to function on a localized, decentralized basis within the Chicago public school system;

(8) Appropriateness of budget and resource allocations, including those functions to be assumed and those to remain centralized;

(9) Impact of the statutes, regulations, rules, and policies for which waivers are sought; and

(10) Such other factors, not confined to the foregoing, that are fiscally sound and reasonably determinative of successful student outcome.