This morning, Superintendent Douglas motioned the state education board, the entity responsible for adopting Common Core in Arizona back in 2010, to vote on the standards, which were defeated.
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The Arizona State Board of Education in a 6-2 decision voted to repeal the Common Core State Standards Monday morning.
Superintendent of Public Instruction Diane Douglas was at the meeting and motioned for the vote.
Monday’s was the first meeting Douglas attended since August.
Last month the Board filed a lawsuit against Douglas to force her to give remote computer access to board investigators and to re-direct web traffic to the board’s new website.
But she showed up Monday determined to bring Common Core to a vote.
Dept. of Education spokesman Charles Tack said, though the vote severs ties to Common Core, the standards will remain in place for the time being. “We need standards, but we need them done right”, he said. She’s stayed true to her promise to work to empower parents over their children’s education-because parental choice, not more government mandates or empty standards-is the best way to ensure a top-quality education for all students.
Arizona’s Superintendent of Public Instruction Diane Douglas is claiming victory in the fight against Common Core in Arizona.
Long said she thought education department facilitators played an inappropriate role in the process and tried to steer the groups in the direction of the current standards.
“If it isn’t perfectly clear that this has a secondary objective than I don’t know if it could be more transparent”, Ballantyne said.
The vote means Arizona will reject the federal education standard and will eventually have to develop its own standards.
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“I think that the action today reflects the desire to continue to update those standards, and make them current”, said Dr. Timothy Ogle, Arizona School Boards Association executive director.
