Illinois. The prairie state. As is the case around the country, state education staff here are working hard to refine and improve their annual LEA determinations process. How are they doing that here in the Land of Lincoln? On our latest episode of A Date with Data, host Amy Bitterman sits down with Illinois Special Education Monitoring Lead Kristina Holloway to learn more about how the state developed its own results-driven accountability system, and how, in turn, that system, led Illinois to look beyond compliance toward student progress and data-driven results.