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Longmeadow panel holds first reading of new competency-determination policy; learning team proposed
Summary
The school committee received the first reading of draft policy IKFE to define a locally determined competency determination required by the state; administration proposed a stakeholder learning team and a timeline for second reading on Dec. 1 and final approval Dec. 15.
Longmeadow School Committee heard the first reading of draft policy IKFE on Nov. 18, a locally defined competency determination (CD) the district must adopt after the state removed MCAS as the default path for the CD.
Administrators, led by Dr. Nelson and joined by Longmeadow High School Principal Tom Landers, said the state (DESE) requires a minimum set of course experiences for a CD: two years of high-school English, an algebra 1 and geometry sequence (or integrated math equivalents), one year of science…
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