Be aligned with entrance requirements for credit-bearing college coursework; Be aligned with relevant state career and technical education (CTE) standards; and Include at least three levels of academic achievement. Current State Policy Gap Analysis Our state joined the Progressive English and Math Standards Met Partial Not Met (PEMS) consortium in 2013, which adopted math and ELA Policies are in place to comply with standards aligned with college entrance requirements. We ESSA requirements by 2017; joined the Millennial Science Standards (MSS) consortium in however, a number of districts have 2014, which uses college-entrance-aligned standards. not fully implemented standards, Each consortium has stated its intent to align with CTE and some alignment work remains. standards by the end of school year 2017. ESSA Implementation Status and/or Supporting Data The PEMS and MSS consortiums have held the first meetings in the process of aligning respective standards with national CTE standards by 2017. Evaluation results indicate that 90% of districts or “agree” that math and ELA teachers have successfully “strongly agree” implemented standards in their classrooms (State PEMS Evaluation, 2016). Next Steps State content experts will convene in February 2017 to continue work on analyzing standards’ alignment. State leaders will meet with LEAs to determine local needs to increase classroom-level implementation.
Be aligned with entrance requirements for credit-bearing college coursework; Be aligned with relevant state career and technical education (CTE) standards; and Include at least three levels of academic achievement. Current State Policy Gap Analysis Our state joined the Progressive English and Math Standards (PEMS) consortium in 2013, which adopted math and ELA standards aligned with college entrance requirements. We joined the Millennial Science Standards (MSS) consortium in 2014, which uses college-entrance-aligned standards. Each consortium has stated its intent to align with CTE standards by the end of school year 2017. Met Partial Not Met Policies are in place to comply with ESSA requirements by 2017; however, a number of districts have not fully implemented standards, and some alignment work remains. ESSA Implementation Status and/or Supporting Data The PEMS and MSS consortiums have held the first meetings in the process of aligning respective standards with national CTE standards by 2017. Evaluation results indicate that 90% of districts “agree” or “strongly agree” that math and ELA teachers have successfully implemented standards in their classrooms (State PEMS Evaluation, 2016). Next Steps State content experts will convene in February 2017 to continue work on analyzing standards’ alignment. State leaders will meet with LEAs to determine local needs to increase classroom-level implementation.
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