Council of Chief State School Officers
For A Business Plan For The Management And Financing Of The Two State Assessment Consortia
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Amount$479,462
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Program
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Date Awarded11/12/2012
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Term15.0 Months
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Type of SupportProject
Strategies
Overview
With adoption of the next generation of Common Core assessments by forty-five states and the District of Columbia, there is an urgent need to ensure the standards’ ongoing governance, administration, and assessment after federal research and development funding ends in 2014. The two state-led consortia— the SMARTER Balanced Assessment Consortium and the Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers—will develop a business plan to create one or more organizations to ensure that the tests are updated and improved in a cost-effective, high-quality way over time. With support from the Hewlett, Gates, and Lumina foundations, the Council of Chief State School Officers would hire a consulting firm to develop a consensus among Common Core constituencies and the consortia’s member states about a sustainable agenda for governance, financing, services, and research and development.
About the Grantee
Grantee Website
www.ccsso.org
Address
One Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Suite 700, Washington, DC, 20001-1431, United States
Grants to this Grantee
for support of the Learning Registry
The Council of Chief State School Officers (CCSSO) is a membership association that serves the heads of state departments of elementary and secondary education. CCSSO would help provide support for Learning Registry - known as "the card catalog for digital resources" - focusing on working on the governance, maintenance, and future upgrades of Learning Registry with guidance and technical support from its members, and other entities such as its partners, the U.S. Department of Education, and other people and groups interested in Open Education Resources (OER). This work is expected to advance the OER program's strategic goal of supporting a robust technical and institutional infrastructure for the broader OER stakeholder community.
