Although it appeared that ACT Aspire had won the bid to become the new vendor of English language arts and mathematics assessments for grades 3-8 and high school in SC, DRC filed a protest on September 30. The award would be $58.4 million through 2019. Act 200 of 2014 required that the State withdraw from the SMARTER Balanced consortium (which Dr. Zais had already done) and select a new assessment by September 30.
DRC submitted the only other proposal. Rumor has it that the DRC proposal was at substantially lower cost.
SC would become the second state (first being Alabama) to have statewide adoption of ACT.
In terms of educator evaluation, according to its website the ACT Aspire suite uses student growth percentiles, and can aggregate growth statistics. Meanwhile, the vendors who submitted proposals to do value added measures are making presentations this week.
Stay tuned for more fun changes.
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