MASC delegates assembly

A quick summary of the actions at the MASC Delegates Assembly today (you can download our manual, which has the full text of all proposed resolutions, here)

• Resolution 1, to work for a comprehensive study on high school start times, passed.
• Resolution 2, to prioritize an agenda for support and services for children in poverty, passed.
• Resolution 3, to determine where a child's test score counts by where they are on October 1, passed.
• A "sense of the assembly" supporting a moratorium on high-stakes testing, passed 66 to 42.
• Resolution 4, to support an equitable and sustainable placement program for homeless students, passed.
• Resolution 5, to support a tax reform ballot initiative (not cited by name), failed on a counted vote.
• Resolution 6, to call for a school committee seat on the Board of Ed, passed, as did a call for an end to the MGL that bars school committee members or district employees from serving.
• Resolution 7, to call for an end of the use of TS Gold student assessment, passed.

The amendments to the bylaws passed unanimously.

Patrick Murphy of Barnstable was elected President-elect.

Beverly Hugo of Framingham was elected Vice President

Devin Sheehan of Holyoke was elected Secretary-Treasurer

...and Jake Oliveira of Ludlow becomes President in January by virtue of his election to President-elect last November.