New Jersey education officials said Wednesday that their review of the Common Core is intended to clarify and improve on the academic standards, not begin from scratch.
“We will not be tearing down and starting over,” the state’s chief academic officer, Kimberley Harrington, told the New Jersey State Board of Education in Trenton.
Gov. Chris Christie said in late May that the Common Core “wasn’t working” and the state would create a panel to pore over the standards and possibly recommend new ones.
The state’s leading education organizations support the Common Core, a set of expectations adopted in 2010 to lay out essential skills children should learn in language arts and math in each grade.
Daniel Luzer is GOVERNING's news editor.
