How specific should the application be?

how can these ideas be sustained?
interstate cooperation
"there's a lot more ways for this to go wrong then right"
what decision making and approval has to happen for this application to go forward (so if you get the money, who still has to say 'yes' to move forward)?
We're back to maybe this being 3-5 years

Need a leadership structure that sustains through leadership changes (aka: when we get a new governor or a new legislature)

What if you have a big consortium? "some leadership management" (oh, good...more administration) Yes:"an executive director model"..."executive committee, executive board" Boy, did this just get more expensive! And what sorts of models do we have in the US for multi-state executives that are vested with any real power? I'm having difficulty coming up with any.

What if a group of states have different standards? Can they be a group anyway? Sure, and it's a great research tool. What if they say, "Yeah, but we're going to keep doing what we're doing" even if it isn't measuring as well? (it sounds like no one has an answer to that.)

Assessments focused on age, stage, or grade? How are we sorting kids?

Literacy and numeracy are basics for college readiness. "if you're going to play, play" I'd like to see as many consortiums happen, but not spliting the subjects...Weiss interjects that states "would become vendors for each other" where states would develop an approach and offer it to other states...but it would quickly lapse into a vendor model, another member objects. In five or six years, there will be perfectly aligned tests and states will buy them, he says.

don't lose the capacity building at the local level...assessment takes on the role of the bad guy/good guy and capacity doesn't get built. Increase the capacity of the teacher, the principal...early models haven't done that.