Dive Brief:

• The South Carolina Education Oversight Committee has selected a new set of standards to replace the contentious national Common Core benchmarks.
• Last June, Gov. Nikki Haley signed a bill requiring the state to adopt new, non-Common Core standards for the 2015-16 school year.  
• To stop the possibility of the state just re-adopting large portions of the Common Core standards — which Indiana has been accused of doing — the new law has said any standards created outside the state's education department must be approved by a joint resolution of the legislature. 

Dive Insight:

South Carolina was the second state, after Indiana, to make moves against the Common Core. The state's Education Oversight Committee had a little over six months to create and pick new standards, which may sound short -- but Indiana gave itself only two months to create new standards.

One fact for South Carolina to consider as it moves forward is how the move will affect its budget. When Indiana dropped the standards it had to allocate millions of additional dollars for testing to create an appropriate exam.