State School Boards Raise Questions About Standards

Las Vegas

States that adopt the proposed common academic standards must use the document word for word, initiative leaders said last week.

Answering questions from state school board members at a meeting here, representatives of the two groups leading the effort said that states may not revise the standards or select only portions to adopt.

“You can’t pick and choose what you want. This is not cafeteria-style standards,” said David Wakelyn, the program director of the education division of the National Governors Association’s...