FIVE FACTS ABOUT ILLINOIS AND PARCC 1. Only nine states plus the District of Columbia are participating in PARCC testing this year: Arkansas, Colorado, Illinois, Maryland, New Jersey, New Mexico, Ohio, Rhode Island, Massachusetts. That’s out of more than 20 originally involved in the consortium of states piloting the project as part of a federal […]
PARCC Standardized Test Raises Questions
Champaign-Urbana parents are questioning the PARCC test’s importance and their right to refuse it.