Associate Director, PARCC Implementation

Tracy Halka is currently the Associate Director of PARCC Implementation, overseeing the implementation of the next generation assessment system developed by the Partnership for the Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers (PARCC), a consortium of states that received a Race to the Top assessment award.

She joined Achieve in 2007, as project manager for the Assessment Partnership, a 15-state effort to develop common algebra assessments. Tracy was responsible for the management of this effort.

Before joining Achieve, Tracy worked at the Florida Department of Education on the Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test (FCAT). While at the Department, Tracy held the positions of Supervisor of Scoring and Reporting and the High School Mathematics Specialist on the FCAT Test Development Team. Her responsibilities included overseeing the development and scoring of the Florida assessment in mathematics. Prior to her assessment work, Tracy taught high school mathematics in Broward County, Florida, where she was very involved in the county and state level mathematics organizations.

Tracy earned her bachelor’s degree in Mathematics Education and her master’s degree in Measurement and Statistics from Florida State University.