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DESE Moves Forward With Common Core Standards

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The Department of Elementary and Secondary Education is moving forward with fully implementing new standards in Missouri’s K-12 schools for teaching math, English and language arts.

DESE spokeswoman Sarah Potter says the new standards are based on those crafted by the Common Core State Standards initiative.

“The standards say what students should know and be able to do by the end of each grade level to be on track for success in college and career,” Potter said.

Potter says Missouri adopted the new standards back in 2010.

“We’ve been slowly implementing that,” Potter said. “The school districts have been changing over curriculum, rewriting curriculum, and adapting to these new standards, and we’re gonna start testing for them officially in the 2014-2015 school year.”

More than 360 public schools are taking part in a pilot program to test out a new assessment system based on Common Core for students in grades 3-11.  Meanwhile, there’s disagreement between DESE and GOP lawmakers over who has the authority to implement new standards.  

A bill in the House would block Common Core standards outright, while a Senate bill would require public hearings before they can be fully implemented.

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