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The Arizona Implementation Plan states that all grade levels must fully implement CCSS next year (2013-14), but the PARCC Assessment does not take effect until 2014-15.  I was just informed by an ADE item selection director that AIMS will still use the blueprint for the AZ 2008 standards on the 2013-14 AIMS test and that teachers/students will be held accountable to BOTH sets of standards.  In other words, students may see items from either set of standards.  It does not seem feasible to address both sets of standards adequately.  CCSS has placed some of the existing 2008 AZ standards in different grade levels.  Teaching to both would interfere with the progressions contained in CCSS.  It seems that ADE would take advantage of these next two years to gradually shift to CCSS by starting to eliminate removed and moved standards while they are adding field-test items from CC.  Any advice on how to manage this situation?

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