News Brief

04/12/13

Alabama Adopts Common Core Testing for Students

WAFF.com (Alabama) (04/12/13) Madison, JackThe Alabama Board of Education recently approved the ACT Aspire standardized test as a way to measure student progress in grades 3-8, and the test will be administered in August 2013. Alabama is the first state to adopt a standardized testing system for the Common Core State Standards, and State Superintendent of Education Tommy Bice says the program will help keep Alabama students on a competitive educational level with kids across the country. "We are accepting no federal money as a part of this participation. So everything we've done here has been based on what the concerns were here in Alabama. We're one-hundred percent confident that we have no connection to the current administration, the U.S. Department of Education, or any federal funding the decisions around these standards," Bice explains.
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