Iowa adopted the Common Core standards but renamed them the “Iowa Core.” They read just like the Common Core standards.
Teachers in K-3 are concerned about the developmental appropriateness of the literacy standards for young children.
The State Education Department has distributed a survey asking teachers what they think of the standards. A teacher in Iowa asked me to post the survey link. Please review the standards and express your views about them.
If you are a teacher in Iowa, be sure to take the survey and let the SED know.
Diane Ravitch's blog 
Way too late to invite a review by everyone affected by the standards. I am not sure that “better late than never” will address the fundamental flaws in these standards.
The Iowa Department of Education is still pitching the lie that the standards were the result of careful review etc etc , etc. I see that Iowa has dumped studies in the arts into the “technical subject category,” just like the CCSS, word for word. That is way too narrow in concept but it has been allowed to stand with no justification that I can find anywhere. Iowa just repeats the flaws in the original. “Re-branding” the CCSS by adding the word IOWA is really nothing more than a political convenience. The Survey Monkey is no substitute for teacher, parent, administrator, citizen discussions with each other and with state officials who adopted these standards…. then asked for comments.
Well put.
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Iowa Core = Common Core = Rotten Road Apple Core.
Iowa is a Smarter Balance state. Re-writing standards that significantly differ from the Communist Core standards would requiring withdrawing from SBAC testing and start developing new standardized tests from scratch.
And let’s not forget that the new SAT is Common Core aligned – another reason to not give up the ghost. Coleman’s final land grab in his relentless effort to cast the CC standards in stone!
Why was one man (David Coleman), who never taught a day in his life, given almost complete control over the education of 50 million students annually?
Standards, standards, standards and the state of the original Boston Tea Party:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/answer-sheet/wp/2016/04/30/a-revealing-new-twist-in-the-common-core-state-standards-controversy/