On the contrary, David Swartz.  Alaska chose to opt out of Common Core, yet the Alaska Board of Education chose to incorporate many of the Common Core elements into this test anyway, such as recording and multi-year tracking the demographics, intellectual abilities, and steered career tracks of each child taking the test.  The Board spent $25 million of our money on this disaster, against the specific advice of us Alaskans.  The test was not in fact specified to have a 2-year life, scheduled to end this year, so there is no validity to an argument of "oh well, it's over now anyway".