Following Indiana’s lead, Oklahoma and South Carolina have dropped Common Core standards, vowing to write their own. North Carolina will be next.
After that? Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal wants his state to dump the Core too.
In a Missouri compromise, the state will use Core standards for two years to give educators time to write a new set of standards.
States also are dropping out of the two federally funded testing consortia, PARCC and Smarter Balanced. Only 42 percent of students will take a Core-aligned test, reports Education Week. That number is “likely to dwindle.”