National Cost of Aligning States and Localities to the Common Core Standards: Listen up Washington State PTA | Seattle Education

National Cost of Aligning States and Localities to the Common Core Standards: Listen up Washington State PTA | Seattle Education:

National Cost of Aligning States and Localities to the Common Core Standards: Listen up Washington State PTA

by seattleducation2011

This is a recent press release from the Pioneer Institute:

STUDY ESTIMATES COST OF TRANSITION TO NATIONAL EDUCATION STANDARDS AT $16 BILLION

Cost far exceeds sums doled out in federal grants used to persuade states to adopt.

BOSTON/WASHINGTON, D.C./SAN FRANCISCO – Aligning state and local educational systems to the Common Core State Standards in English language arts and math will cost the 45 states plus the District of Columbia that have adopted them nearly $16 billion over seven years according to a new study published by Pioneer Institute, the American Principles Project, and the Pacific Research Institute of California. This does not include additional spending for reforms to help students meet the new standards.

“Very few of the states that adopted Common Core vetted the costs and benefits beforehand,” said Theodor