U.S. Department of Education Still Hasn’t Approved Utah SBAC Withdrawal
The Utah State Board of Education voted to leave the Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium (SBAC) back in early August. As a refresher here is the exit process dictated by the SBAC governance...
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Common Core Propaganda Bill in Utah House
Oak Norton wrote an op/ed about HJR008 at Deseret News, but I wanted to share the text of the bill here. The language of House Joint Resolution 008, which is a “joint resolution on the benefits of...
View ArticleWendy Hart: Utah Bites Into the Common Core
The video below was created by Wendy Hart, a candidate for the Alpine School District board in Utah, created an excellent video about Utah’s adoption of the Common Core. Check it out and read the...
View ArticleLawsuit Against Common Core Filed in Utah
The Libertas Institute announced a lawsuit filed against the Utah State Board of Education over the Common Core State Standards. The lawsuit filed today in Utah’s Third Judicial District Court has six...
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Herbert Has Seen the Light on Common Core, SAGE (In an Election Year)
Well, this is amusing. Utah Governor Gary Herbert now calls for an end to Common Core and SAGE (the test Utah uses after leaving Smarter Balanced). Deseret News reports: In a letter to the Utah State...
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The Utah State Board of Education Got a Shake-up
One of the more exciting events from Election Day last week in light of our fight against Common Core is that Utah elected three anti-Common Core candidates to the Utah State Board of Education. Utah...
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Anti-Common Core Victories at the State Level
Governor-elect Chris Sununu (R-NH) said Common Core “needs to be scrapped.” Much has been made about what Donald Trump’s election may mean for federal involvement in education, and rightly so....
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It Is Too Expensive to Replace Common Core?
It is too expensive to replace Common Core. That’s the argument one member of the Utah State Board of Education made last week. The Salt Lake City Tribune reports: Utah opponents of the Common Core...
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About The Projected Costs To Change Utah’s Standards
Photo Credit: Soupstance (CC-By-2.0) I wanted to follow-up on an article about Utah’s projected costs to change its academic standards. Utah State Board of Education member Spencer Stokes was the...
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Will Utah Fight for Parental Control After Feds Deny ESSA Opt-Out Waiver?
So much for returning educational autonomy to the states. In his inaugural address, President Trump sounded a clarion call for transferring power from the federal government to the people: [T]oday we...
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