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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]All this money wasted on bad decisions.  [b]Most states never adopted PARCC in the first place.[/b]  Maryland spent millions on it, and now it will spend millions on a new test.  We need better education professionals representing us in Annapolis.[/quote]

It was originally 24 states. That's 2 states short of "most", but it's still a lot.

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This article says it was only a dozen states that adopted PARCC.  That's hardly "most."  And anyway, for the last few years, the number was dropping until Maryland was one of only 3 states last year.
http://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/curriculum/2018/09/maryland_will_drop_the_parcc_c.html
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Maryland officials will drop the PARCC exam after the 2018-19 school year, reducing the number of states administering the full exam after that year to just two: New Mexico and New Jersey, plus the District of Columbia.

The state education department confirmed the news, which was first reported by The Baltimore Sun. State board members have discussed moving away from PARCC in the last six months, a Maryland education department spokesman said, and have already put out an RFP seeking a new test vendor.

PARCC was one of the original tests created to assess students' grasp of the Common Core State Standards, the shared expectations in use in more than a dozen states, including Maryland; it is also comparatively more difficult than many of the other tests that emerged in the last decade, including other common-core tests.
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