Comprehensive Achievement & Civic Readiness
What is Comprehensive Achievement and Civic Readiness?
During the 2024 session, the Minnesota Legislature renamed WBWF (World's Best Work Force) to Comprehensive Achievement and Civic Readiness (CACR). This new name emphasizes dual roles for the goals set forth in district plans — supporting students with academic achievement within their preschool through grade 12 experience as well as preparing them to be active members of their community after graduation. This change took effect as of the 2024-25 school year strategic plans and Fall 2025 annual summary report.
CACR plans address the four WBWF goals as well as one additional goal:
- All children are ready for school.
- All racial and economic achievement gaps between students are closed.
- All students are ready for career and college.
- All students graduate from high school.
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Prepare students to be lifelong learners.
Why is Minnesota Focused on This Idea?
For Minnesota to be competitive, we must have students who are college and career ready, students who are poised to lead the state’s workforce. This is important for a number of reasons:
- Our population is aging.
- 70% of jobs require more than a high school diploma.
- We don’t have qualified candidates to fill many good-paying jobs.
- The fastest growing segment of our future workforce is students of color, and they currently have the state’s lowest graduation rate.
- Minnesota has one of the worst black-white achievement gaps in the country.
Teacher Equity
The legislation also focuses on ensuring all students have equitable access to excellent teachers. Districts must ensure they have a process in place to examine the equitable distribution of teachers and strategies to ensure low-income students, students of color, and American Indian students are not taught at higher rates than other children by inexperienced, ineffective, or out-of-field teachers.
Annual Report and Annual Public Meeting
Annual Public Meeting and Progress Report
While the full Comprehensive Achievement and Civic Readiness (CACR) requires school districts to create a strategic plan, each year districts also share their Comprehensive Achievement and Civic Readiness and Achievement and Integration and Progress with their stakeholders through a public meeting and on the district website. ISD 199’s annual report and public meeting are focused on the strategies and initiatives that the district engaged in to meet the goals and the progress made on those goals in the prior school year.
ISD 199’s Comprehensive Achievement and Civic Readiness and Integration Progress Report
Monday, October 13, 2025
5:30 PM
CACR & Achievement & Integration Progress Report for 2024-2025