Dive Brief:
- Common Core has been rejected by a 6-2 vote in Arizona after the state senate rejected a repeal attempt last year.
- Arizona Superintendent of Public Instruction Diane Douglas aims to eliminate Common Core as part of her education plan.
- The vote is a continuation of the trend of individual states repealing Common Core, including Oklahoma, South Carolina, and Indiana.
Dive Insight:
The next challenge for Arizona will be the development of new state standards.
The trend of individual states repealing Common Core continues. Missouri has also recently introduced a bill to replace the federal standards. Other states have attempted to repeal Common Core and failed, including Mississippi, North Dakota, and South Dakota.
Overall, the federal guidelines are likely here to stay.
"In states where the standards were repealed, they've been replaced with mostly identical ones," Education Dive reported last month. Just three of the 46 states that adopted Common Core have replaced the standards with state guidelines.
