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 Education Commissioner Johnny Key Monday afternoon directing the Department of Education to withdraw the State of Arkansas from the Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers (PARCC) Consortium since he has not reaffirmed the state’s participation since taking office.
So unless the state board of education find some loophole around PARCC’s memorandum of understanding this should be checkmate. As I have found with state boards of education lately their hubris knows no bounds though so I’m not going to be surprised if they try to find a way around this.