MA Board of Ed meets Monday

The Massachusetts Board of Education meets Monday in Malden at 8:30. You'll find their agenda here.
Up for afternoon discussion is teacher evaluation. The morning meeting has presentations on the dropout rate and graduation rate.
The bulk of the meeting, however, is taken up with charter schools in one way or another. As the T&G has today, Worcester's Seven Hills Charter School is being recommended for probation due to MCAS scores. The charter for Seven Hills is up for renewal, and Commissioner Chester is recommending to the Board that conditions be placed on the renewal.
Also, Chester is recommending 17 additional charter schools for around Massachusetts (none in Worcester), including, at the petition of the Salem School Committee, a Horace Mann charter in Salem.