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DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) -- The Iowa Board of Education has voted 6-0 to adopt the Common Core State Standards, a nationwide initiative to keep students nationally and internationally competitive.
The initiative is a voluntary effort led by states to develop common expectations among them for what students should learn from kindergarten through high school. The standards cover language arts and math. They seek to set clear and realistic goals for success.
The board on Thursday approved the Common Core standards as part of the Iowa Core, which was enacted in 2008 and specifies skills and concepts that Iowa K-12 students must learn.
All Iowa school districts and accredited nonpublic schools are required to implement the Iowa Core by 2014-2015.
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