The structural integrity of the educational system of a democratic society must be guided by the communities it nurtures and represents. In this manner an inherent flexibility is formed allowing change to match the needs of individual communities in current society.
Reform is no less a synonym for change than words such as progress or growth.
Many efforts at educational reform have attempted to meet the needs of our changing society. Together we created the Confederation of Illinois Reform Efforts in devotion to furthering our shared focus on a common set of basic fundamentals and beliefs in educating students. Once seen as passing trends, these habits are now widely accepted as common to a thoughtful educational routine. Each network's individual efforts in demanding excellence of its member schools previously survived in isolation. This isolation implied the misconception that each movement was detached and largely different from one another, pulling and pushing educational philosophy in different directions.