Repeal Puts Common Core In Limbo Of Sorts
Common Core repeal leads to legal and regulatory limbo
By KIM ARCHER World Staff Writer
A new law repealing Common Core standards has led to a tangle of legal challenges, regulation changes and financial costs that has injected uncertainty among Oklahoma school districts about the coming school year.
On June 5, Gov. Mary Fallin signed HB 3393 requiring Oklahoma to toss the Common Core math and English standards that were to be implemented by the 2014-15 school year.
The law directs the state Board of Education to revert to Oklahoma’s Priority Academic Student Skills, or PASS, standards for two years until new ones can be developed.
But at the June 26 meeting, the state board tabled votes on everything related to adopting PASS and removing Common Core from rules language and tests in light of a legal challenge to the law’s constitutionality filed the previous day.
State Board of Education members Lee Baxter, Bill Shdeed, Amy Anne Ford and Daniel Keating joined five school teachers and three parents in the lawsuit filed in Oklahoma Supreme Court.