Massachusetts 2023-2024 Regular Session

Massachusetts Senate Bill S312 Compare Versions

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2	2	SENATE DOCKET, NO. 1852 FILED ON: 1/20/2023
3	3	SENATE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . No. 312
4	4	The Commonwealth of Massachusetts
5	5	_________________
6	6	PRESENTED BY:
7	7	Jason M. Lewis, (BY REQUEST)
8	8	_________________
9	9	To the Honorable Senate and House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in General
10	10	Court assembled:
11	11	The undersigned legislators and/or citizens respectfully petition for the adoption of the accompanying bill:
12	12	An Act for the end of Common Core, and establishing certain other curriculum standards.
13	13	_______________
14	14	PETITION OF:
15	15	NAME:DISTRICT/ADDRESS :Vincent Lawrence Dixon60 Lake Street Unit N, Winchester MA
16	16	01890 1 of 3
17	17	SENATE DOCKET, NO. 1852 FILED ON: 1/20/2023
18	18	SENATE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . No. 312
19	19	By Mr. Lewis (by request), a petition (accompanied by bill, Senate, No. 312) of Vincent
20	20	Lawrence Dixon for legislation for the end of Common Core, and establishing certain other
21	21	curriculum standards. Education.
22	22	[SIMILAR MATTER FILED IN PREVIOUS SESSION
23	23	SEE SENATE, NO. 360 OF 2021-2022.]
24	24	The Commonwealth of Massachusetts
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26	26	In the One Hundred and Ninety-Third General Court
27	27	(2023-2024)
28	28	_______________
29	29	An Act for the end of Common Core, and establishing certain other curriculum standards.
30	30	Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court assembled, and by the authority
31	31	of the same, as follows:
32	32	1 SECTION 1. The Massachusetts General Laws are hereby amended by inserting the
33	33	2following new chapter:
34	34	3 An Act for: Ending Common Core, and establishing certain other curriculum standards.
35	35	4 1.) The interest of parents, students, families, teachers, and many others, in achieving the
36	36	5best of educational standards has, in many ways, been influenced by serious concerns about the
37	37	6“Common Core” curriculum.
38	38	7 2.) This legislation, seeks to spare the negative effects of the Common Core curriculum,
39	39	8and establish certain new standards for curriculum in schools.
40	40	9 Therefore, the language below is proposed, and upon passage, is adopted: 2 of 3
41	41	10 SECTION 2. Notwithstanding the provisions of any general or special law to the
42	42	11contrary, the vote taken by the Massachusetts Board of Elementary and Secondary Education on
43	43	12July 21, 2010, to adopt the Common Core State Standards for Mathematics and English
44	44	13Language Arts is hereby rescinded. The curriculum frameworks in Mathematics and English
45	45	14Language Arts that were in effect prior to that date are hereby restored.
46	46	15 SECTION 3. Section 1D of Chapter 69 is hereby amended in the second paragraph by
47	47	16inserting after the first sentence, the following new sentences:
48	48	17 The process shall include committees made up exclusively of public school teachers and
49	49	18academics from private and public colleges and universities established and operated in
50	50	19Massachusetts. The commissioner shall copyright the frameworks, which shall be wholly owned
51	51	20by the department; permission shall be granted to copy any or all parts of these frameworks for
52	52	21non-commercial educational purposes.
53	53	22 SECTION 4. Said section 1D of chapter 69 is hereby further amended in the second
54	54	23paragraph by inserting after the third sentence the following new sentences:
55	55	24 There shall be three review committees, one for each discipline of math, science and
56	56	25technology and English. Each review committee shall have three members appointed by the
57	57	26governor who shall choose said members from private or public research universities established
58	58	27and operated in Massachusetts for each of the disciplines. For the purposes of this section, a
59	59	28“research university” is any university that awards doctoral degrees in the arts and sciences. Each
60	60	29review committee shall warrant by a two-thirds vote that the frameworks are equivalent to the
61	61	30standards of the most educationally advanced nations as determined by the Trends in 3 of 3
62	62	31Mathematics and Sciences Study. No framework shall be approved by the board without such a
63	63	32warrant.
64	64	33 SECTION 5. Section 1I of Chapter 69 is hereby amended in the third paragraph by
65	65	34inserting after the second sentence, the following new sentence:
66	66	35 In order to better inform the teachers and administrators about the diagnostic
67	67	36assessments, after the administration of the assessments but before the start of the new school
68	68	37year, the commissioner shall release all of the test items, including questions, constructed
69	69	38responses and essays, for each grade and every subject.
70	70	39 SECTION 6. The several provisions of this Act are independent and severable and the
71	71	40invalidity, if any, of any part or feature thereof shall not affect or render the remainder of the Act
72	72	41invalid or inoperative.
73	73	42 SECTION 7. This act shall take effect immediately upon becoming law.