Districts Concerned About Common Core Technology Costs

Education Week (10/17, O'Hanlon) reports, "In the next couple of years, most public school students will be expected to be taking tests online, instead of using pencil and paper, because of their states' adoption of the Common Core State Standards. But in this time of tight budgets, many school districts are wondering how they will pay for improvements they may need to make to their technological infrastructure to test large numbers of students online under the common-core initiative by the 2014-15 school year." The piece notes that some districts may use funds currently allocated for textbook purchases or boost millage rates.