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