SJR49- Encouraging the State Board of Education to Retain Control of Alabama Academic Standards, Curriculum, Instruction, and Testing. WHEREAS, the Legislature has learned that the United States Department of Education is funding the development of national curriculum guidelines, modes, and materials as well as national assessments based upon the initiatives standards, thus creating a national curriculum and testing system; and WHEREAS, the Legislature is very concerned with the federal governments intrusion in Alabamas right to set curriculum and standards and the powers duly delegated to the board to do so; and WHEREAS, this body finds that the conditional No Child Left Behind (NCLB) waiver plan will result in the United States Department of Education leveraging the states into a de facto long term national system of curriculum, programs of instruction, and instructional materials, notwithstanding the absence of legal authority in the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) and that this system will bind states indefinitely to the common core standards, Partnership for the Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers and SMARTER Balanced Assessment Consortium (PARCC-SBAC) assessments, and the curriculum and instructional modules that arise from those assessments; now therefore. BE IT RESOLVED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF ALABAMA, BOTH HOUSES THEREOF CONCURRING, That by copy of this resolution provided to the State Superintendant of Education for distribution to the board, we hereby encourage the State Board of Education to take all steps it deems appropriate, including revocation of the adoption of the initiatives standards if necessary, to retain complete control over Alabamas academic standards, curriculum, instruction, and testing system. alisondb.legislature.state.al.us/acas/ACTIONViewFrame.asp?TYPE=Instrument&INST=SJR49&DOCPATH=searchableinstruments/2012RS/Printfiles/&PHYDOCPATH=//alisondb/acas/searchableinstruments/2012RS/PrintFiles/&DOCNAMES=SJR49-int.pdf
Posted on: Thu, 02 Oct 2014 10:38:01 +0000