FITCHBURG, MA – During Tuesday’s public-input session on PARCC, a newly developed standardized test that will likely replace the current state test, the state board of Elementary And Secondary Education heard rants, raves and everything in between.

PARCC — Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers — is based on the Common Core federal learning standards and is being administered this year in 13 states, but Massachusetts has not yet made the call as to whether it will be permanent.