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SENATE DOCKET, NO. 1282 FILED ON: 1/16/2025
SENATE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . No. 396
The Commonwealth of Massachusetts
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PRESENTED BY:
Jason M. Lewis, (BY REQUEST)
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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 for the end of Common Core, and establishing certain other curriculum standards.
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PETITION OF:
NAME:DISTRICT/ADDRESS :Vincent Dixon60 Lake St Apt N Winchester MA 01890 1 of 3
SENATE DOCKET, NO. 1282 FILED ON: 1/16/2025
SENATE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . No. 396
By Mr. Lewis (by request), a petition (accompanied by bill, Senate, No. 396) of Vincent Dixon,
for legislation for the end of Common Core, and establishing certain other curriculum standards.
Education.
[SIMILAR MATTER FILED IN PREVIOUS SESSION
SEE SENATE, NO. 312 OF 2023-2024.]
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 for the end of Common Core, and establishing certain other curriculum standards.
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. The Massachusetts General Laws are hereby amended by inserting the
2following new chapter:
3 An Act for: Ending Common Core Curriculum, and establishing certain other curriculum
4standards.
5 1.) The interest of parents, students, families, teachers, and many others, in achieving the
6best of educational standards has, in many ways, been influenced by serious concerns about the
7“Common Core” Curriculum. – A recent Ballot Question, eliminated the MCAS Test, as a
8Graduation Requirement; but left in place, the Common Core Curriculum. – This statute, is
9focused on the need for basic, and improved curriculum standards. 2 of 3
10 2.) This legislation, seeks to spare the negative effects of the Common Core Curriculum,
11and establish certain new standards for curriculum in schools.
12 Therefore, the language below is proposed, and upon passage, is adopted:
13 SECTION 2. Notwithstanding the provisions of any general or special law to the
14contrary, the vote taken by the Massachusetts Board of Elementary and Secondary Education on
15July 21, 2010, to adopt the Common Core State Standards for Mathematics and English
16Language Arts is hereby rescinded. The curriculum frameworks in Mathematics and English
17Language Arts that were in effect prior to that date are hereby restored.
18 SECTION 3. Section 1D of Chapter 69 is hereby amended in the second paragraph by
19inserting after the first sentence, the following new sentences:
20 The process shall include committees made up exclusively of public school teachers and
21academics from private and public colleges and universities established and operated in
22Massachusetts. The Commissioner shall copyright the frameworks, which shall be wholly owned
23by the Department; permission shall be granted to copy any or all parts of these frameworks for
24non-commercial educational purposes.
25 SECTION 4. Said section 1D of chapter 69 is hereby further amended in the second
26paragraph by inserting after the third sentence the following new sentences:
27 There shall be three review committees, one for each discipline of math, science and
28technology and English. Each review committee shall have three members appointed by the
29governor who shall choose said members from private or public research universities established
30and operated in Massachusetts for each of the disciplines. 3 of 3
31 For the purposes of this section, a “research university” is any university that awards
32doctoral degrees in the arts and sciences. Each review committee shall warrant by a two-thirds
33vote that the frameworks are equivalent to the standards of the most educationally advanced
34nations as determined by the Trends in Mathematics and Sciences Study. No framework shall be
35approved by the board without such a warrant. – This means that standards should be at the
36highest International Standards.
37 SECTION 5. Section 1I of Chapter 69 is hereby amended in the third paragraph by
38inserting after the second sentence, the following new sentence:
39 In order to better inform the teachers and administrators about the diagnostic
40assessments, after the administration of the assessments but before the start of the new school
41year, the Commissioner shall release all of the test items, including questions, constructed
42responses and essays, for each grade and every subject.
43 SECTION 6. The several provisions of this Act are independent and severable and the
44invalidity, if any, of any part or feature thereof shall not affect or render the remainder of the Act
45invalid or inoperative.
46 SECTION 7. This act shall take effect immediately upon becoming law.