Chiefline 5.15.13

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Education Newsbriefs

Baesler Says North Dakota Needs More STEM Education

North Dakota Superintendent of Public Instruction Kirsten Baesler says more STEM schools and a strategy to integrate STEM into high schools are needed in the state. more

Missouri Revising Standards for Early Childhood Education

Missouri is pushing to promote early childhood education by revising its early learning standards to clarify the expectations for programs serving students under age 5. more

Assembly Committee Approves New Testing System

Legislation sponsored by California Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Torlakson was approved by the Assembly Education Committee and sent to the Assembly Appropriations Committee for consideration. Assembly Bill 484 would establish the California Measurement of Academic Performance and Progress for the 21st Century to replace the Standardized Testing and Reporting system. more

Louisiana School Head John White Calls for Federal Streamlining

Louisiana Education Superintendent John White testified during a U.S. House Education and Workforce Committee hearing and said that states must be held accountable for how their school systems perform, but they also need greater flexibility to design the best programs for students. more

More Hawaii Public School Students Gearing Up for College?

Hawaii P-20 Partnerships for Education and the State Department of Education have issued College and Career Readiness Indicators reports that show improvements among public school students throughout the college-readiness pipeline. more

Georgia Leaves No Child Left Behind

Georgia Superintendent of Schools Dr. John Barge recently unveiled the state's new accountability system, the Georgia College and Career Ready Performance Index (CCRPI), which will replace No Child Left Behind's Adequate Yearly Progress measurement. more

Vocational Training on the Rise But Can't Keep Up With Demand

While more Arizona high school students are receiving training for technical jobs, ranging from culinary arts to health occupations, growth is not happening quickly enough to fill jobs at some businesses. more

Meet the Chiefs

Patricia I. Wright

Superintendent of Public Instruction

Virginia Department of Education

Meet All the Chiefs

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Common Core State Standards: State Spotlights

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Common Core State Standards: Implementation Tools and Resources
CCSSO developed this list of tools and resources to point states to promising practices and tools to support Common Core State Standards implementation. This document primarily lists resources developed by CCSSO and the lead writers of the standards and is not intended to be a comprehensive list of all resources available.

CCSSO would also like to thank the following Level II Partners:

The Council of Chief State School Officers is a nonpartisan, nationwide, nonprofit organization of public officials who head departments of elementary and secondary education in the states, the District of Columbia, the Department of Defense Education Activity, and five U.S. extra-state jurisdictions. CCSSO provides leadership, advocacy, and technical assistance on major educational issues. The Council seeks member consensus on major educational issues and expresses their views to civic and professional organizations, federal agencies, Congress, and the public.

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