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It outlines plans awarded in 2010 and 2011 for PARCC and SBAC to develop and implement assessments by the 2014-2015 school year, including technology enhancements, standards transition support, and educator use of results. 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These assessments are intended to play a critical role in educational systems; provide administrators, educators, parents, and students with the data and information needed to continuously improve teaching and learning; and help meet the President's goal of restoring, by 2020, the nation's position as the world leader in college graduates.  \nIn September of 2010, the U.S. Department of Education awarded two Comprehensive Assessment Systems grants to the Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers (PARCC) Consortium and the Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortia (SBAC) . The consortia are to develop and implement assessment systems by the 2014-2015 school year. In addition, PARCC and SBAC were each provided a supplemental grant award to support the work in their approved application and to successfully transition to the new standards and assessments. Each received a supplemental grant award to include activities that focused on:  \n• Developing gap analyses between current and new standards, curriculum analysis tools, professional development related to the new standards and assessments including support for educators to better understand the content of the new standards, state and local assessment audits to determine what assessments will no longer be needed.  \n• Enhancing technology to be used in the assessments systems, including assessment delivery.  \n• Supporting educator understanding and use of assessment results, and other steps needed to build the professional capacity to implement more rigorous common standards.  \nOn January 7, 2011, PARCC and SBAC each entered into a Cooperative Agreement with the Department regarding these grants. The agreement is intended to provide for substantial communication, coordination, and involvement between the Department and the grantee to ensure the success of the grant. At the August 2011 Governing Board meeting, representatives of PARCC and SBAC provided a briefing about their implementation plans.  \nAlso in 2010 the Office of Special Education Programs, U.S. Department of Education offered competitive grants to spur the development of a new generation of alternate assessments for students with disabilities tobe jointly developed and used by groups of states. Grants were awarded to two consortia — the Dynamic Learning Maps Alternate Assessment Consortium (DLM) and the National Center and State Collaborative (NCSC) . These new alternate assessments will be aligned to the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) and are expected to fit cohesively within the comprehensive assessment systems under development PARCC and SBAC. Both DLM and NCSC are to be ready for use by the 2014-15 school year, the same year in which the comprehensive assessment systems will be operational.  \n• The Dynamic Learning Maps Alternate Assessment Consortium (DLM) received a $22 million award. Thirteen (13) member states include Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Mississippi, Missouri, New Jersey,  North Carolina, Oklahoma, Utah, Virginia, Washington, West Virginia, and Wisconsin serving  \n1 At the May Governing Board Meeting in San Antonio, a hard copy report was distributed that contains detailed  \ninformation about each of the five assessment consortia. The April 2012 report, Coming Together to Raise Achievement: New Assessments for the Common Core State Standards, was published by the Center for K–12 Assessment & Performance Management at ETS, is also available on the Internet at [http://www.k12center.org/rsc/","cbCaicO6nwL3Mul2","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaicO6nwL3Mul2","pdf",835638,"English","# Background\n## Race to the Top Assessment Program funding\n## PARCC and SBAC grants and implementation timeline\n## Enhanced Assessment Grant for English proficiency assessments\n## Alternate assessments aligned to CCSS (DLM and NCSC)\n## Roles, host organizations, and project leadership","[{\"question\":\"What was the Race to the Top Assessment Program designed to achieve?\",\"answer\":\"It provided funding for state consortia to develop assessments that are valid, support and inform instruction, accurately reflect what students know and can do, and measure achievement against standards.\"},{\"question\":\"What are PARCC and SBAC expected to deliver by the 2014-2015 school year?\",\"answer\":\"They are tasked with developing and implementing comprehensive assessment systems, supported by supplemental grants for transition to new standards and assessments, technology, and educator readiness.\"},{\"question\":\"Which consortia developed alternate assessments aligned to Common Core State Standards, and by when?\",\"answer\":\"Dynamic Learning Maps (DLM) and the National Center and State Collaborative (NCSC) are described as aligned to CCSS and expected to be ready for use by the 2014-15 school year.\"}]","Common Core Assessment Consortia - Background | PDF",1791061960,18]