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WV state school board moves to replace Common Core standards
By Ryan Quinn, Education Reporter for the Gazette-Mail
The West Virginia Board of Education Friday moved forward with a repeal of the state's current Common Core-based K-12 math and English language arts standards, in order to replace them with a version the state schools superintendent says isn't based off the national standards blueprint.
Michael Martirano said the new standards would go into effect next school year if state school board members approve them. That vote is expected in December, after a 30-day public comment period that began Friday.
That means the changes could be approved before the start of another session of the state Legislature, where members â including Senate President Bill Cole, R-Mercer and a candidate for governor â have said they want to repeal the Common Core-based standards.
It was unclear Friday how greatly the new standards â which Clayton Burch, chief academic officer for the state education department, called a "complete overhaul" and improvement over the current standards â differ from West Virginia's current standards, which were first implemented statewide last school year after a roughly four-year phase-in process.
Burch said earlier this week that the policy changes regarding the new standards were still being written after the department received West Virginia University's report from the statewide "Academic Spotlight" review of the standards. Educators convened to review comments submitted as part of that review last month.
The new standards â more than 160 pages for math, and nearly 100 pages for English language arts, though Burch said they're simpler than the current standards â were first posted online Thursday night. State school board President Mike Green and Vice President Lloyd Jackson said they hadn't yet had time to read through the new standards, but would during the 30-day public comment period ...
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