Colorado Rural Schools Have Chance To Design Own Tests
DENVER (AP) — Rural schools in Colorado who want to opt out of Common Core linked tests can pilot their own assessments under a proposal passed in the waning hours of the state legislative session.
Elliott Asp, who is a special assistant to the state education commissioner, has been talking with the group and expects more details on their ideas when they address the state board of education this coming week.
Paula Stephenson, who is executive director of the Rural School Alliance, says superintendents interested in the idea lead districts with enrollments ranging from 100 to 5,000.
The language allowing a pilot was part of a measure that ends some mandatory testing in early grades and late in high school but retains language arts and math tests in the third through 9th grades.
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