Idaho Core Standards

State releases final round of SBAC numbers

Statewide test scores were largely unchanged. Testing times fell well below projections.

The lawsuit challenging the Idaho Core Standards — and Common Core testing — resembles cases filed in two other states.

The lawsuit, filed Monday, seeks to toss out the Idaho Core Standards established in 2013, and block the online exams tied to the standards.

Ybarra pledges the she and Gov. Butch Otter will be on the same page with their budget proposals, which will be rooted in task force recommendations.

Statewide numbers were released Wednesday. District- and school-level results remain unavailable.

Eastern Idaho’s Madison County District is opting out of the new Common Core-aligned assessments — but that appears to be an isolated protest.

“We’ve overcome most of the resistance to (Common Core),” Gov. Butch Otter said during a conference call with reporters Wednesday.

The State Board of Education will have final say on the content of the exam, aligned to the new Idaho Core Standards.

There is no opt-out bill on the agenda — yet. But the idea is already having a ripple effect at the Statehouse.

Idaho is struggling to preparing its educators to teach to the new Common Core standards, according to a Washington, D.C.-based nonprofit.