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2022 School & District Accountability

July 12, 2022 Center for Education Policy + Practice

Act fast to submit public comment on the “accountability lite” system! A proposal to report the data collected but drop the complicated “targets” is on the table for the 2022 accountability reporting. Take a look at the proposed

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Public Comment Palooza! Spring 2022

April 26, 2022August 11, 2022 Center for Education Policy + Practice

Three FIVE opportunities for public comment on regulations are open this week. Any member of the public can weigh in on proposed amendments to regulations during the public comment period. The Department of Elementary and Secondary Education (DESE)

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Accountability, Data and Test Scores 2019

October 3, 2019October 3, 2019 Center for Education Policy + Practice

2019 MCAS reports and school/district accountability reports are here! If you require assistance in understanding, we have the focused/targeted support for you. The school and district accountability reports were published by the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education

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Real Examples – Accountability #DataVizDay

October 16, 2018November 20, 2018 Center for Education Policy + Practice

How can five students sink the ranking for an entire school? Our Real School is in the 59th percentile of all schools, met 75 percent of targets and has a graduation rate of 93.2 percent. For 2018 MCAS,

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Assistance and Intervention Designations (Not Levels!) -Accountability 2018 #DataVizDay

October 2, 2018November 20, 2018 Center for Education Policy + Practice

Requiring Assistance or Intervention Designations The 2018 school accountability designations are based on the new system created to meet requirements of both ESSA and Massachusetts statute. This new system using a different set of accountability indicators but is

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2018 MCAS + Accountability Results

August 27, 2018August 27, 2018 Center for Education Policy + Practice

2018 State test results and school/district accountability reports are coming! The school and district results from the spring 2018 MCAS administration will start to trickle out by the end of August. The public reporting of the first accountability

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BESE March 2018 Agenda

March 19, 2018 Center for Education Policy + Practice

It is a regulation-palooza! Accountability, English learners, Vocational Education and the Seal of Biliteracy are all on the list! The Board of Elementary and Secondary Education (BESE) will meet Monday March 26,  and Tuesday March 27 at the

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New Year, New Accountability System

January 9, 2018 Center for Education Policy + Practice

Test scores, student attendance, 9th grade course passing and English language proficiency are some of indicators in the proposed redesign of the school and district accountability ratings. The Massachusetts Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) plan requires a redesign

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Freezing School Levels for 2017

March 3, 2017March 3, 2017 Center for Education Policy + Practice

Commissioner Mitchell Chester is proposing to freeze school and district accountability for level 1-3 for 2017-2018. A proposed change to the regulations was voted to send for public comment by BESE. The proposed language change to 603 CMR

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MA ESSA State Plan for School Accountability

February 8, 2017 Center for Education Policy + Practice

Fire up the comment machines. Massachusetts’s draft state plan for school and district accountability is now available. Public comment is open until March 9, 2017. Please submit feedback through this survey, or email essa@doe.mass.edu. For your reading pleasure,

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