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School committee amends graduation competency language for class of 2025
Summary
The Ashland School Committee on March 12 voted to amend language in the Ashland High School student handbook to clarify how the Class of 2025 can meet local competency determination in English, math and science.
The Ashland School Committee on March 12 voted to amend language in the Ashland High School student handbook to clarify how students in the Class of 2025 will meet local competency determination in English, math and science.
Committee members adopted a motion to remove the handbook's "transition considerations" section and end the competency-determination text where it states that the building principal's decision shall be final. The change was presented as a way to address immediate local certification while awaiting further guidance from state authorities about MCAS-related changes.
The amendment matters because the state altered how the MCAS will be used for competency determinations, and districts must decide how local coursework will substitute for the tenth-grade…
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