Missouri judge rules against state's participation in Common Core

Valerie Strauss, Washington Post - The fighting over the Common Core initiative continues: A Missouri judge said the state’s membership in a federally funded testing consortium charged with creating an assessment aligned with the Common Core standards is illegal. And what’s more, he ruled that the state should stop paying fees to the group, the Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium.

The ruling, which is expected to be appealed and well may not stand, is the newest salvo in what is an increasingly heated debate over Common Core State standards... Cole County Circuit Court Judge Daniel Green ruled that SBAC itself is:

“an unlawful interstate compact to which the U.S. Congress has never consented, whose existence and operation violate the Compact Clause of the U.S. Constitution, Article I, § 10, cl. 3, as well as numerous federal statutes; and that Missouri’s participation in the Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium as a member is unlawful under state and federal law.”