Embracing PARCC Leads U.S. in Forward

The State Board of Education allocated special time today to discuss and vote on whether to encourage the State Legislature to reverse their 2012 decision requiring the Colorado Department of Education to adopt one of the two national multi-state assessment consortia. This follows last month’s surprising political move in which Chair Lundeen argued that Colorado should discontinue its participation in PARCC, and declared that he intended to bring his recommendation to a vote. It should come as no surprise that today’s vote passed along party lines.