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Breaking News: Utah State Board of Education Votes to Pull Out of SBAC

Posted on August 3, 2012 by Shane Vander Hart

The Utah State Board of Education’s meeting today had common core testing on the agenda.  Sources tell me that the Board has voted to pull out of their testing consortium – the Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium (SBAC).  SBAC had received Race to the Top funding in order to provide assessments based on the Common Core State Standards.

Their governance document says any state wanting to leave the consortium can do so without cause, but they must comply with the following exit process:

1. A state requesting an exit from the Consortium must submit in writing its