Post by Chris_Wendt on Dec 8, 2013 8:14:42 GMT -5
The State of Indiana has put the brakes on implementing the Common Core.
Florida has withdrawn from the PARCC consortium, of which NY State remains a member, although non-compliant. Florida is now seeking public input about possible changes to the Common Core. Changes to the Common Core? By a single state?
Meanwhile, similar but less dramatic actions have been taken by two other PARCC consortium states, Louisiana and Massachusetts who are both reconsidering the Common Core Assessments, rather than the CC Curriculum.
More significantly, bellwether Indiana is considering slowing implementation of the Common Core. Indiana has a school voucher program which allows parents to use vouchers to pay for tuition at private and religious schools, schools which are NOT subject to the Common Core Curriculum nor to the Common Core Assessments. That could make Common Core or lack thereof a marketplace decision concerning where some parents want to spend their vouchers and send their kids to school.
In NY, Regents Chancellor Meryl Tisch and State Education Department Commissioner John King have last week canceled their final Long Island dog-and-pony show about the Common Core, thought to have been scheduled for tomorrow in Nassau County.
Read the [a href="Newsday article (link)"]Newsday article (link)[/a].
As the article suggests, the Common Core is not dead, with some positive results having been reported in Tennessee and DC. However, I suspect King's tenure as NY Commissioner of Education may be on life support.
Please don't shoot the messenger!
Chris Wendt, Messenger
Florida has withdrawn from the PARCC consortium, of which NY State remains a member, although non-compliant. Florida is now seeking public input about possible changes to the Common Core. Changes to the Common Core? By a single state?
Meanwhile, similar but less dramatic actions have been taken by two other PARCC consortium states, Louisiana and Massachusetts who are both reconsidering the Common Core Assessments, rather than the CC Curriculum.
More significantly, bellwether Indiana is considering slowing implementation of the Common Core. Indiana has a school voucher program which allows parents to use vouchers to pay for tuition at private and religious schools, schools which are NOT subject to the Common Core Curriculum nor to the Common Core Assessments. That could make Common Core or lack thereof a marketplace decision concerning where some parents want to spend their vouchers and send their kids to school.
In NY, Regents Chancellor Meryl Tisch and State Education Department Commissioner John King have last week canceled their final Long Island dog-and-pony show about the Common Core, thought to have been scheduled for tomorrow in Nassau County.
Read the [a href="Newsday article (link)"]Newsday article (link)[/a].
As the article suggests, the Common Core is not dead, with some positive results having been reported in Tennessee and DC. However, I suspect King's tenure as NY Commissioner of Education may be on life support.
Please don't shoot the messenger!
Chris Wendt, Messenger