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New Mexico to Stop Using PARCC

January 3, 2019 By Shane Vander Hart

Newly minted New Mexico Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham ordered the state’s department of education to stop using PARCC.

KOB Channel 4 reports:

Lujan Grisham, in an executive order, called on the department to immediately begin working with key stakeholders to identify and implement a more effective, more appropriate and less intrusive method for assessing school performance that is compliant with the federal Every Student Succeeds Act.

The development of this alternative approach, intended to deliver a sounder methodology for the rating and assessments of New Mexico schools, will include teachers, administrators, parents, students and recognized professionals and experts in the field of student assessments.

“This is the first of many steps we will take to transform education in this state,” Gov. Lujan Grisham said. “High-stakes tests like PARCC do our schools a disservice, and we are about empowering our school system. Including those who will be most empowered by a better assessment in the process will help us build something better from the ground up, as opposed to a test mandated from on high.”

In a second executive order, Lujan Grisham called for an end to using PARCC in teacher evaluations. Reaching out to stakeholders in a similar fashion, the department will, under the order, strive to achieve balance in its ratings and assessments by incorporating into its analysis a variety of proven means of measuring teacher efficacy and performance. 

Since New Mexico’s math and ELA standards are Common Core any new test will still be aligned to the standards as required by the Every Student Succeeds Act.

New Mexico’s upcoming departure coupled with New Jersey’s and Maryland’s upcoming exit will drop the Common Core assessment consortium that once boasted 27 partners (including 24 states) down to four.

PARCC’s active partners include the District of Columbia, Illinois (grades 3-8 only), Louisiana (hybrid, grades 3-8 only), New Jersey (plans to withdraw), Maryland (plans to withdraw), Massachusetts (hybrid, grades 3-8 only), New Mexico, Bureau of Indian Affairs, and the Department of Defense Education Activity.

Filed Under: Common Core Assessments Tagged With: Michelle Lujan Grisham, New Mexico, PARCC

Comments

  1. LisaM says

    January 4, 2019 at 9:07 am

    MD and NJ are NOT dumping PARCC. We are getting zombie PARCC. New Meridian owns PARCC and is endorsed by TBF. Our Governors think we are stupid.

    • Shane Vander Hart says

      January 4, 2019 at 1:01 pm

      I said they were leaving PARCC as in the consortium. I did not make a comment about what they were adopting.

    • Shane Vander Hart says

      January 4, 2019 at 1:03 pm

      Frankly until ESSA is repealed there will not be any assessment I’m going to be happy with.

  2. LisaM says

    January 4, 2019 at 9:10 am

    https://www.nj.gov/education/sboe/meetings/2018/August/public/Presentation%20by%20New%20Meridian.pdf?fbclid=IwAR3jucqE1piAETk2rFFlhose7L7YIBCPs9NdiI-Gxiqp3jEfHc47FsS9tog

  3. Richard Phelps says

    January 10, 2019 at 7:25 pm

    The problem is not high-stakes, per se, which can be employed appropriately (think occupational licensure exams). The problem is the fuzzy pedagogy embedded in PARCC and the federal usurpation of state and local prerogatives.

  4. Richard Phelps says

    January 10, 2019 at 7:32 pm

    “new”, “next generation”, “innovative”, “high quality”, … take away the adjectives and adverbs and little substance remains

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