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Hingham committee reviews broad handbook revisions, including shift from MCAS as graduation competency
Summary
Committee reviewed a first read of updated student handbooks across grade levels: removal of MCAS as a required competency determination, health and medication clarifications, discipline and suspension language updates, new AI policy, and other housekeeping changes; staff, counsel and nurses reviewed draft.
The Hingham School Committee on Aug. 18 received a first reading of proposed updates to district student handbooks covering elementary through high school, led by district administrators and reviewed by legal counsel and nursing staff. Among the substantive changes flagged for further work: the district will no longer rely on MCAS as a competency determination for graduation and is developing alternate competency-determination methods to meet the state’s timelines; health-services language was tightened around medication, self-carry items, and communication; discipline procedures were revised to align with state law and counsel’s advice; and an AI-use policy was added to handbook text. District staff said principals, school councils, the district’s new…
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