Bill Summary: House Resolution 1032

• Directs the Oklahoma State Board of Education to cancel its online testing contract with CTB/McGraw-Hill and cease all contractual relations with the company.

• Addresses system outages on April 29-30, 2013, that disrupted statewide standardized testing for grades 3-8 and end-of-instruction tests, affecting student graduation status and classroom instruction.

• Cites negligence by the State Department of Education for contracting with CTB/McGraw-Hill despite the company's known failures in delivering online testing in other states (specifically Indiana in 2011).

• Criticizes the Department's flawed Request for Proposal (RFP) scoring process, forced revision after protests, and selection of the most expensive vendor proposal.

• Requires distribution of the resolution to the State Superintendent of Public Instruction and State Board of Education members.