Thousands of parents across the country and here in Illinois are concerned about Common Core standards, PARCC testing on those standards, and the accumulation and storage of their children’s personal ...

What it is: The state Department of Education sent to districts at the end of the school year the “CCSS Implementation Curriculum Evaluation Tool” to ensure they would have language arts and math ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio (WDTN) – Governor John Kasich signed a $71.2-billion dollar state budget. It takes out funding to PARCC testing. 2 NEWS has learned that a new vendor will administer the statewide exam.

Illinois is ditching the controversial state PARCC exam for high school students, instead giving 11th-graders a state-paid SAT college entrance exam next spring. The announcement from the Illinois ...