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1 | | HOUSE RESOLUTION
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2 | | WHEREAS, The members of the Illinois House of |
3 | | Representatives recognizes that the State Board of Education's |
4 | | decision to implement, both, the Common Core Standards and the |
5 | | Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and |
6 | | Career's were not authorized by the Illinois State Legislature; |
7 | | and
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8 | | WHEREAS, In 2010, Illinois became one of 48 states to opt |
9 | | in for the Common Core Standards by accepting federal funds |
10 | | from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act and through the |
11 | | Race to the Top Initiative of the federal government; and
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12 | | WHEREAS, Over the next few years, the Common Core |
13 | | Standards, which are largely untested in the United States, |
14 | | will substantively change the educational standards for |
15 | | students in Illinois, thus affecting every teacher and student |
16 | | in the State; and
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17 | | WHEREAS, There are many unknown and significant costs |
18 | | associated with the Common Core Standards and the Partnership |
19 | | for Assessment of Readiness for College and Career's; and
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20 | | WHEREAS, The only substantive cost analysis of the |
21 | | implementation of the Common Core Standards was conducted by |
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1 | | the Pioneer Institute, a non-partisan, privately funded |
2 | | research organization, which estimates the financial impact |
3 | | for Illinois to be close to $773 million over 7 years; and |
4 | | WHEREAS, There are many school districts who lack the |
5 | | technology, infrastructure, and funding to create an |
6 | | environment for the online standards testing required by the |
7 | | Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and |
8 | | Career's or the new textbooks that will be needed to teach to |
9 | | the Common Core Standards; and |
10 | | WHEREAS, The State Board of Education has not secured |
11 | | funding for schools that will need curricular, technological, |
12 | | and infrastructure upgrades; and |
13 | | WHEREAS, The most recent data shows that close to 67% of |
14 | | school districts are operating with a deficit, the prospect of |
15 | | a pension cost-shift, and other expensive unfunded mandates by |
16 | | the State; and |
17 | | WHEREAS, It is inconceivable to require districts to incur |
18 | | costs to upgrade schools in their respective districts because |
19 | | the State Board of Education unilaterally made the decision to |
20 | | move to the Common Core Standards, without counsel from local |
21 | | school districts, without a strong Statewide informational |
22 | | campaign about the Common Core Standards, and without |
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1 | | performing a cost analysis for local school districts and the |
2 | | State; therefore, be it
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3 | | RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE |
4 | | NINETY-EIGHTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that |
5 | | we urge State Superintendent Koch and the State Board of |
6 | | Education to delay the implementation of the Common Core |
7 | | Standards until a Board authorized and conducted study shows |
8 | | the costs associated with the Common Core Standards and the |
9 | | Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and |
10 | | Career's; and be it further
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11 | | RESOLVED, That the State Board of Education and General |
12 | | Assembly create a viable plan to provide funding to school |
13 | | districts that need improvements and modernizations to comply |
14 | | with the new Common Core Standards and the Partnership for |
15 | | Assessment of Readiness for College and Career's; and be it |
16 | | further |
17 | | RESOLVED, That suitable copies of this resolution be |
18 | | presented to the State Board of Education and all members of |
19 | | the Illinois General Assembly.
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