School leaders from North Carolina’s New Hanover County Board of Education recently met to discuss the possibility of accepting a five-day waiver that was offered to them by the state, Star News Online reports. These five professional days would be used to discuss how the Common Core State Standards can be smoothly integrated into their current curriculum.
According to its website, the Common Core State Standards is a national initiative that aims to ensure that students are learning the same topics in English language arts and mathematics during the same grades. Currently, 48 states and territories have decided to adopt the new curriculum.
In the General Assembly budget, five days were added to the calendars of public schools across the state. However, since many institutions had already finalized their calendars by that time, the state decided to allow those schools that want to have additional development days to apply for waivers, the news outlet reports.
During their meeting, the county board decided to take advantage of this additional time and plans to use three days for professional development and add an extra two days onto the students’ academic calendar in order to prepare them for the five days that will be added in the 2012-2013 school year.
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