OK Ed Board Creates Committee To Re-write Common Core
State Board of Education creates steering committee to determine process of rewriting academic standards
BY ANDREA EGER World Staff Writer
OKLAHOMA CITY — The Oklahoma State Board of Education on Wednesday unanimously approved the formation of a steering committee to examine and recommend a process for developing new academic standards to replace Common Core.
Last month, board members split with State Superintendent Janet Barresi and voted 5-1 to table her recommendation on creating new reading and math standards for the state’s public schools. She had proposed a two-year process that would have involved a host of committees and teams.
“This committee is examining the best process for the development of the standards. This is not the committee that is going to develop the standards,” said Amy Ford, who along with fellow board member Lee Baxter, put forward Wednesday’s recommendation. “We have got a very short time frame — there is a lot of information we are going to have to digest in rather short order.”
The state board is charged with overseeing the process of developing new math and English standards for Oklahoma’s public schools because in late spring the Legislature passed House Bill 3399, which threw out the Common Core standards previously adopted for the 2014-15 school year.