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 issuing agencies use Standards Satchel as their CASE® publishing tool.
CGLT also operates a service, where we mirror the public frameworks from all these issuing agencies on a single Satchel server instance. This service is provided as a public benefit to the edtech ecosystem for the advancement and growth of CASE®. It builds upon the CASE Network initially launch by 1EdTech™ (as IMS Global) with ELA and Math frameworks for all 50 states. Starting in 2023, CGLT’s contribution has been to serve as the CASE® publisher for 7 more core subject areas to fill in gaps across the 50 states, maintain & update all frameworks over time, and add-on services for consumers to more easily incorporate CASE® into their systems and products. Starting in 2025, CGLT has also added international frameworks for the core 4 subjects as well. The goal of CASE® is to provide a single point of access where all learning standards and competencies can be made available in a standardized 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 access to our platform, at no cost, for unlimited download and API access to CASE®.
A few innovators such as Google Classroom, Infinite Campus, Powerschool, and Frog Street have started to lead the way with CASE® by integrating the competencies, skills, and standards that educators and leaders need right into their products and content.
Many other registered suppliers have created import wizards within their products that allow a system admin level leader to import the CASE® standards and competencies needed to set up courses, gradebooks, report cards, assessments, and more.
While the ecosystem has a lot of momentum around CASE®, 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). 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 Satchel hosting subscription: $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 Satchel hosting subscription: $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® conversion services only (no subscription required). CGLT is able to cover the basic costs of CASE® publishing and maintaining many standards frameworks, via revenue collected from ed-tech suppliers that register for our services. Agencies not hosting their CASE® frameworks themselves can partner with CGLT, at no cost, to gain temporary access to our Satchel tools to review the existing frameworks for accuracy and confirm their validity.
If you choose either of the first two options, CGLT will work with you to adapt the frameworks already published in CASE® for use as the “official” source of truth from 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 tools or we can do the initial coding as a service 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 using CASE®, we would be delighted to collaborate with you to help bring your state on board!
Ed-Tech Suppliers
Using CASE® as your “skills database”
Access up-to-date CASE® 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, etc.) via the standard CASE API. You will also find a few district specific, national, and many international frameworks too!
The services CGLT provides on on top of CASE®, include:
Update reports and weekly email notifications for frameworks and items that have been updated (info. also available via API).
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 the services we add to CASE®, CGLT asks ed-tech suppliers to pay a $10K/year registration fee for unlimited access to the CASE API (see CGLT terms of use for frameworks where we are listed as the CASE® publisher).
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 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 mentioned above 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 all our CASE® services and the Rosetta resource alignment system described above.
Ask us about discounts for your first year of access to any of these services.