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Common Core Repeal Bill in Alabama Senate
Photo credit: Jim Bowen (CC-By-2.0) SB 101 sponsored by State Senator Rusty Glover (R-Semmes) would not only end the state’s participation in the Common Core State Standards, but also involvement with...
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Arkansas Shuts Door on PARCC
The Arkansas House originally passed a bill that would pull the state out of PARCC. The Arkansas Senate amended that bill to delay PARCC’s use, but still left the door open to use it. Arkansas...
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Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson Directs Withdraw from PARCC
Arkansas Governor Asa Hutchinson countered a move by his state’s board of education to continue its use of PARCC after rejecting his order to use ACT and ACT Aspire. Hutchinson sent a letter to...
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It’s Official, Arkansas Is Out of PARCC
A couple of weeks ago Arkansas Governor Asa Hutchinson ordered his state out of PARCC after some back and forth with his state board of education. The board Thursday complied (not that they had any...
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School Superintendent: “Aspire Is An Autopsy”
Photo credit: Bartmoni (CC-By-SA 3.0) ACT’s Common Core assessment, Aspire, did not receive a glowing endorsement from at least one school superintendent in Alabama. From AL.com: Madison City Schools...
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Two More Smarter Balanced States Eye Making Changes
Photo credit: Bartmoni (CC-By-SA 3.0) House Democrats in Delaware are calling for the state to stop requiring Smarter Balanced for high school juniors. Delaware Public Media reports this week: Ten...
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Fordham Institutes’s PARCC v. MCAS Report Falls Short
(Pioneer Institute) The Fordham Institute has long been at work on a study of the relative quality of tests produced by the two Common Core-aligned and federally funded consortia (PARCC and SBAC),...
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Alabama Is an Example that Local Control Under ESSA Is a Sham
Photo credit: Jim Bowen (CC-By-2.0) Tricia Powell Crain with AL.com reported last week that the Alabama State Board of Education learned at their last meeting that the U.S. Department of Education...
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What Do the Feds Expect Us To Do Without the ESSA Waiver?
Alabama State Department of Education Headquarters As a member of the Alabama State Board of Education, the passage of the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) in 2015 gave me hope that the state could...
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Alabamians Ask; Trump Administration Enables State Control of Assessments
Alabama State Department of Education Headquarters Alabama Superintendent Sentance sent a letter June 1, 2017, to Acting Deputy Jason Botel of the United States Department of Education (USDE) on behalf...
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