Stephanie Bell, a member of the Alabama State Board of Education, was on Capital Journal (a program of Alabama Public Television). She explained that the board’s recent vote on the Common Core did not rescind it. She said the only way to settle the debate is to “kill the Common Core.” Click below to watch […]
Alabama Pulls Out of PARCC and SBAC
Edweek reported late Friday that Alabama has pulled out of both testing consortia that it was involved in. In an email to EdWeek, the state’s assessment director, Gloria Turner, confirmed that Alabama has bowed out of both the Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers, or PARCC, and the Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium. […]