Indiana Education Board Approves Common Core Replacement

The Indiana State Board of Education has approved new math and English standards to replace the Common Core benchmarks in Indiana's classrooms this fall.  

The board voted 10-1 Monday morning to endorse the new education standards in a step that completes Indiana becoming the first state to formally abandon the national benchmarks that had been adopted by 45 states.

Some Common Core opponents told the board they didn't support the new standards, saying they're only watered-down versions of the contentious national standards.

Several of those opponents booed and jeered last week as the Education Roundtable led by Republican Gov. Mike Pence and Democratic state schools Superintendent Glenda Ritz voted overwhelmingly to endorse the new benchmarks.

The standards are a guide for what students should learn in each grade.