Tag Archives: ASRC

Surveys and Common Core Commission Funding

Posted on February 20, 2015 by A.P. Dillon

Daily Haymaker has an article up on the coal ash/Common Core commission funding bill, which is SB 14. Haymaker seems a little stressed out that $275k was allotted. I’m not. The commission has to work over the course of a year, handling what in essence is an educational and political hydra.

Haymaker also points out that the bill bans the commission from contracting third parties or services for surveys. That’s section four of the bill.

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First things first. This section of the bill is clearly meant to keep the commission from really finding out what the people think as it makes reference to the legislative research committee (LRC). A committee, by the way, which didn’t fulfill it’s task. The financial and legal analyses do not appear to have been done. If they have, they were not made public.

Yeah, that “two hours” of stakeholder opinion? That was 60 people getting to speak for a whole huge 2 minutes.

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Post-Mortem of February NC Common Core Commission Meeting

Posted on February 17, 2015 by A.P. Dillon

Due to inclement weather, many were not able to attend the NC Academic Standards Review Commission (ASRC) meeting yesterday in Raleigh. I listened in to the live stream of the meeting after fighting with RealPlayer for a bit. For those … Continue reading →

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#NCGA Bill Filed To Fund Common Core Commission

Posted on February 3, 2015 by A.P. Dillon

Senate Bill 14, Acad. Standards/Rules Review/Coal Ash/Funds., was filed at the North Carolina General Assembly and referred to the committee on appropriations/base budget the same day.

The bill handles funding for three separate items, one of them being the Common Core Academic Standards Review Commission (ASRC).

It has been a battle for the commission to get the funding they need to operate properly and are now approaching their 7th meeting on the 16th of this month.

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CCSSO Pres. Atkinson Calls Standards Copyright Questions “Preposterous”

Posted on January 17, 2015 by A.P. Dillon

Asking questions about a set of copyrighted standards is “preposterous”, ya’ll.
So sayeth the President of the CCSSO.

@DrJuneAtkinson Legal issue is “preposterous”? You’re CCSSO Prez -grant us a waiver as listed in the Public License. http://t.co/sgyvJlUKSo

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1-16-15 NC Common Core Commission Meeting

Posted on January 17, 2015 by A.P. Dillon

Yesterday, the NC Common Core Commission, known as the Academic Standards Review Commission (ASRC), met. The meeting location was changed. The meeting was held in the State Board of Education board room at the Department of Public Instruction so the meeting could finally be live streamed. Apparently, the Department of Administration was unable to live stream.

I was at the meeting and tweeted throughout the meeting. You can see my tweet timeline in the Storify article, NC Common Core #ASRC Meeting – 1/16/15.

Meeting Highlights

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NC #ASRC Handout has Author Missing

Posted on January 15, 2015 by A.P. Dillon

In going over the December meeting materials from the Common Core Academic Standards Review Commission (ASRC), there was one handout that was missing any notation of who the author was.

This handout had a header on it that said, “Legislatively Required Standards Review Process in Other States”. A closer inspection of the original document’s properties showed it was authored by Michael Gilligan.

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