The law was designed to increase opportunities for local input and flexible decision making based on what communities and states need to provide a quality education to their students. (magnetschools.info)
The importance of local input was a lesson learned from pursuing a federal Race to the Top grant in the past. (hechingerreport.org)
But a moratorium late last year was declared on counting Common Core - based tests to evaluations as the state considers an overhaul of the standards with local input. (nystateofpolitics.com)