Information about this year's Joint Annual Conference - including general sessions, centennial celebration highlights, awards, delegate assembly, and other highlights - are now available online.

While they last, gift items commemorating the 1913-2013 IASB Centennial have been put on sale. Gift items that were available at the conference bookstore are now being offered online, with special pricing for bundles of seven and themed package sales. These items will be on sale for a limited time only.

Find out what Illinois school board members and superintendents said: who they are, what they think, what they want, and how they think IASB is doing in this issue's cover stories on the 2013 IASB Member Survey. Also...

This issue reports on the changes in state report cards being overshadowed by the long-anticipated drop in student ISAT scores. That drop resulted entirely from the state's change in scoring, the story notes. The list of new LeaderShop Academy Fellows is also provided, and word on a state mandates review led by IASB's Executive Director Roger Eddy, plus IASB's Centennial celebration and other activities at Conference.

Compiled each week during sessions of the General Assembly and as needed during off-session times, Alliance Legislative Reports summarize major legislative activities and bills of interest to school leaders. Read the latest ALR here (12/3/13).