Standards Satchel
CASE® (Competencies & Academic Standards Exchange) is a 1EdTech™ standard (like CLR, QTI, LTI) that allows organizations to publish learning standards ...
As of June 2025, 20 US states, as well as other agencies such as Chicago Public Schools, WIDA, and the College Board, are publishing standards on their own CASE® servers. The majority of these agencies use Standards Satchel as their CASE® publishing tool.
CGLT also operates a service called CASE Network (CN), where we mirror the public frameworks from all these agencies on a single Satchel server instance. In addition, CGLT has converted PDF and other formats for frameworks for 9 core subject areas for all states not yet publishing in CASE® and keeps the data current. The goal of CN is to provide a single point of access where all learning standards from all states can be accessed in standardized CASE® format using the standard CASE API, for use by all public agencies and ed-tech suppliers.
The CASE® Ecosystem
How can I take advantage of the CASE® Ecosystem using Satchel?
Public Agencies
Any public agency (state, district, university, or other not-for-profit organization) can register for CASE Network access, at no cost, for unlimited download and API access to all CASE® frameworks.
A few innovators such as Google Classroom, Infinite Campus, and Powerschool have started to lead the way with CASE® by integrating the competencies, skills, and standards that educators and leaders need right from CASE Network into their products.
Many other registered suppliers have exported the CASE® JSON data or created import wizards that allow a system admin level leader to import the standards and competencies they need to set up courses, gradebooks, report cards, assessments, and more.
About half of the US states have not yet officially begun their CASE® publishing journey and/or have not yet converted all subject-area frameworks into CASE® format (see the blue states in the map on the CASE Network website). Our goal is to get every agency self-publishing so that they can ensure the validity and timeliness of their CASE® data.
If you work for a state DOE or other agency that publishes learning standards (including school districts), and you are not yet publishing those standards in CASE® format, CGLT provides three options to get started doing so:
Dedicated hosting: $24K/year for your own dedicated server with a branded instance of Satchel. A dedicated instance gives you complete control over all aspects of CASE data management, and also allows you to use Satchel’s alignment and crosswalking tools, described in the section for ed-tech suppliers.
Shared hosting: $6K/year for a “patch” on Satchel Commons. Here your frameworks are hosted on a shared-tenancy server with other states, districts, and agencies. This is a great way to get started with CASE if you don’t currently have the budget for a dedicated instance.
CASE Network only (no annual subscription required). CGLT is able to cover the basic costs of authoring and maintaining many standards frameworks and hosting them on CASE Network, via revenue collected from ed-tech suppliers that register for access to CASE Network. Agencies not hosting their CASE® frameworks themselves can partner with CGLT, at no cost, to ensure that the frameworks already published on CASE Network are accurate sources of truth for their agency’s standards.
If you choose either of the first two options, CGLT will work with you to adapt the frameworks already published on CN for use as the “official” CASE® frameworks for your agency, at no additional cost. If you also wish to convert and publish new frameworks, we will train your team to be CASE® publishers with Satchel’s authoring and review tools or we can do the initial coding for you for a fee.
A table listing detailed differences between these three options is available here.
If you are part of a school district or other agency in a state that is not yet self-publishing their CASE standards, we would be delighted to collaborate with you to help bring your state on board!
Ed-Tech Suppliers
Using CASE Network as your “standards database”
Access up-to-date frameworks for at least 9 core subject areas (ELA, Math, Science, Social Studies, Computer Science, World Languages, Health, Physical Education, and Early Learning) from all 50 states (plus DC, Puerto Rico, and many other agencies) in standard CASE format, via the standard CASE API, from CASE Network.
CASE Network also includes additional services, such as:
Weekly email notifications of frameworks that have been updated in the past 7 days
The GUID Translator tool, which helps with migrating to CASE from alternative codings of standards
Sanitized versions of the CASE 1.0 and 1.1 APIs that remove html and other non-conformant data from CASE JSON
An API to access LLM vector encodings of any subject framework from any state (Satchel uses these for advanced search, association, crosswalking, and alignment services; you can use them however you wish!)
To defray the costs of developing, managing, maintaining, and constantly improving CASE Network, CGLT asks ed-tech suppliers to pay a $10K/year registration fee for unlimited access to the CASE Network APIs (but note that, once downloaded, you are free to use CASE data in perpetuity at no additional cost).
Using Satchel Rosetta alignment services
Satchel Rosetta leverages CASE data to streamline the process of aligning and “cross-aligning” resources to learning standards. Our system uses LLM vector encodings of standards and resource metadata to make suggestions for initial alignments; your SME reviews these suggestions and creates alignments with a click of a button. To then align to a new framework, Rosetta uses the LLM encodings to generate an “auto-crosswalk” between the standards in the initial and new frameworks, and uses the auto-crosswalk in addition to the resource metadata when making suggestions. As you cross-align to each additional framework, Rosetta’s suggestions keep getting more and more accurate.
Try Rosetta for a month a one-time $1K pilot fee; if it works for your company’s needs, yearly access to Rosetta is $25K, which includes the CASE Network registration fee and allows you to create as many alignments to as many states, frameworks, and items as you wish.
License Satchel for creating crosswalks and/or managing your own frameworks
If your company manages your own frameworks, skill spine, crosswalks, or has needs for other competency management functions, you can license your own instance of Satchel from CGLT. The cost for ed-tech suppliers is $50K/year, which includes full access to CASE Network and the Rosetta resource alignment system described above.
Ask us about discounts for your first year of access to any of these services.