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State to create its own tests to assess Common Core standards
Georgia calls national consortium's efforts too expensive
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Georgia leaders announced Monday the state will develop its own assessments for the Common Core standards, opting out of a national consortium in the process of creating those tests. Georgia was one of 22 states to join the Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers years ago with the aim of developing Common Core assessments in math and English/language arts by 2014-15.While this move does not impact the Common Core standards set for those subjects, the state is now responsible for those subject assessments. “We have been informed that we will have new assessments,” said Sarah Bell, director of academic programs and standards with the Gainesville school system.