Common Core State Standards and DPS

Durham Public Schools administrators are recommending a phase-in of Common Core State Standards high school math courses, school board members were told last week.

The Common Core curriculum was adopted by the state Board of Education in 2010, replacing standards that the state adopted in 2003 and 2009; the latter set was never implemented. Implementation of the national Common Core standards – 45 states and the District of Columbia have so far joined in – is tied heavily to federal Race to the Top funds, of which DPS was awarded about $3.6 million.

Read more: The Herald-Sun - Schools to phase in Common Core math
By Melody Guyton Butts, mbutts@heraldsun.com; 419-6684