INDIANAPOLIS — State Sen. Dennis Kruse, R-Auburn, says he hopes a legislative committee studying Common Core State Standards can come to a consensus by the end of this month.
The committee of six Republican and six Democratic legislators have conducted three meetings to decide whether to recommend using a national set of reading and math education standards.
The Indiana General Assembly formed the committee after it passed a bill “pausing” implementation of the standards, which were adopted by the Indiana State Board of Education in 2010. Kruse serves as co-chairman of the committee.
The committee met for the third time last week and considered a recommendation, but could not get at least seven members to agree on it, Kruse said.
The recommendation would have proposed that Indiana have its own standards and tests and that no names be attached to student data, Kruse said. Standards and tests also would be college- and career-ready, Kruse added.
“As it turned out, we never offered that recommendation, because we couldn’t get seven members (to agree),” Kruse said.
Kruse said the committee has requested funding to conduct one more meeting by the end of this month with hopes of coming to a consensus with some rewording of the recommendation.
“I hope that we can seven or more of the 12 to agree to the recommendation to say we want Indiana standards,” Kruse said.
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