The Christian Right wants
public money to be used for private religious
education (vouchers), buildings and services to be used for private religious purposes (this article), and they want subsidies in the form of tax breaks, special exemptions of other sorts, and they even want to
destroy Aid to Needy Families
so they can drive people into seeking help at their private religious «missions» where you are not allowed to eat unless you are a Christian, and
so on.
I am willing to bet the Smarter Balanced people haven't learned yet how to keep a reasonable rate of reliability (or for that matter validity) on these testing approaches
so they are using our kids as «guinea pigs» while they calibrate and re-calibrate their tests to show which of our kids our «most stupid» and they can call them pejorative names and close their schools and fire the teachers etc etc with harsh punitive measures that are meant to
destroy public education.