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Bridgespan has released a new paper entitled Building the Missing Link Between the Common Core and Improved Learning.

Governor Tom Corbett appointed Carolyn Dumaresq to serve as the Acting Secretary of Education in Pennsylvania on August 26, 2013.

On August 26, 2013, Nevada Governor Brian Sandoval appointed Dale Erquiaga as the new State Superintendent of Public Instruction.

States that have adopted the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) and are planning to roll out shared content assessments are turning their attention to establishing uniform standards for identifying English-language learners and determining when they no longer need language instruction.

The West Virginia Department of Education released data from its new accountability system, which found that 28 percent of schools met goals for student learning and improvement and 38 percent had met one of the two goals.

State Education Secretary Armando Vilaseca announced that Vermont is one of five states — New Hampshire, Maryland, Mississippi, and Oregon being the others — chosen by the University of Kansas to receive a five-year, $24.5-million grant from the U.S. Department of Education to implement the K-8 Schoolwide Integrated Framework for Transformation (SWIFT) national education initiative.

School districts in North Dakota were told by the State Department of Public Instruction to begin planning for the 2015 implementation of the Common Core State Standards by July 1, 2013, if they had not done so already.

The Montana Office of Public Instruction reported that more than 9,000 public school juniors took the ACT test last spring, an increase of 3,000 students over the previous year.

California Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Torlakson announced that schools will receive $622 million in new funding at the beginning of the school year to support the transition to the new Common Core State Standards (CCSS).

On Aug. 23, the U.S. Department of Education proposed regulations that would transition away from the 2 percent rule, emphasizing the department's commitment to holding all students to high standards in order to prepare them for college and career.