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| 2 | 2 | | HOUSE DOCKET, NO. 91 FILED ON: 1/6/2025 |
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| 3 | 3 | | HOUSE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . No. 660 |
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| 4 | 4 | | The Commonwealth of Massachusetts |
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| 5 | 5 | | _________________ |
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| 6 | 6 | | PRESENTED BY: |
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| 7 | 7 | | Kelly W. Pease |
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| 8 | 8 | | _________________ |
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| 9 | 9 | | To the Honorable Senate and House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in General |
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| 10 | 10 | | Court assembled: |
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| 11 | 11 | | The undersigned legislators and/or citizens respectfully petition for the adoption of the accompanying bill: |
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| 12 | 12 | | An Act concerning equitable state summative assessments of students. |
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| 13 | 13 | | _______________ |
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| 14 | 14 | | PETITION OF: |
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| 15 | 15 | | NAME:DISTRICT/ADDRESS :DATE ADDED:Kelly W. Pease4th Hampden1/6/2025 1 of 2 |
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| 16 | 16 | | HOUSE DOCKET, NO. 91 FILED ON: 1/6/2025 |
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| 17 | 17 | | HOUSE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . No. 660 |
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| 18 | 18 | | By Representative Pease of Westfield, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 660) of Kelly |
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| 19 | 19 | | W. Pease relative to state summative assessments of students. Education. |
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| 20 | 20 | | The Commonwealth of Massachusetts |
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| 21 | 21 | | _______________ |
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| 22 | 22 | | In the One Hundred and Ninety-Fourth General Court |
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| 23 | 23 | | (2025-2026) |
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| 24 | 24 | | _______________ |
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| 25 | 25 | | An Act concerning equitable state summative assessments of students. |
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| 26 | 26 | | Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court assembled, and by the authority |
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| 27 | 27 | | of the same, as follows: |
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| 28 | 28 | | 1 Section 1 of Chapter 69 of the General laws, as appearing in the 2020 Official Edition, is |
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| 29 | 29 | | 2hereby amended by striking out item (4) and inserting in place thereof the following words, |
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| 30 | 30 | | 3effective July 1, 2021: |
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| 31 | 31 | | 4 “(4) to provide equity in opportunity for all children to reach their full potential, an |
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| 32 | 32 | | 5effective mechanism in the form of a computer-adaptive assessment with a high enough ceiling |
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| 33 | 33 | | 6and low enough floor to monitor the actual achievement and progress of individual students’ |
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| 34 | 34 | | 7mastery through the various K-12 learning standards in English, Mathematics, Science and |
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| 35 | 35 | | 8Social Studies, which mechanism seeks to identify, on an annual basis, the learning standards |
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| 36 | 36 | | 9students likely have already mastered and those which they haven’t, for the purposes of |
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| 37 | 37 | | 10identifying all students’ authentic growth, ensuring their continuous progress through those |
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| 38 | 38 | | 11learning standards, identifying directly the actual level of each student’s learning readiness in the |
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| 39 | 39 | | 12public classrooms of the Commonwealth, and of holding educators more accurately and fairly |
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| 40 | 40 | | 13accountable through such authentic measure of students’ achievement and growth.” 2 of 2 |
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| 41 | 41 | | 14 Section 1I of Chapter 69 of the General Laws, as appearing in the 2020 Official Edition, |
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| 42 | 42 | | 15is hereby amended by replacing the fourth sentence of the second paragraph with the following |
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| 43 | 43 | | 16sentence, effective July 1, 2023: |
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| 44 | 44 | | 17 “To provide equity in opportunity for all children to reach their full potential, such |
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| 45 | 45 | | 18instruments shall be criterion-referenced and flexible enough to assess which levels of the |
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| 46 | 46 | | 19various academic standards, described in this chapter, that students are meeting.” |
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