The Board of Ed meets October 30

...and the agenda looks a bit different...
The Board of Ed meets Tuesday for the month of October. You can find their agenda online here.

After opening remarks, first up is a panel of STEM educators, as this current week has been declared STEM week in Massachusetts (please tell me we will be having a "Humanities week" as well.)

Being couched differently than in other years ("Student, School, and District Performance Results" with a h/t to whomever at the Department is ensuring Oxford commas are used), the accountability report comes before the Board on Tuesday; this will be both MCAS results (there's a link on the memo to a summary of results) and the overall accountability information. (I'm also finding "will join us for the discussion" versus "will be available...to answer your questions" to be an intriguing decision on phrasing.)

Chronically underperforming schools are reporting out; for simplicity's sake, let's call these the receivership schools (the memo is a Word doc).

There will be a report of the budget committee on FY20.

The Board will get an update on implementation of the LOOK Act.

Thanks to Mary Ann Stewart for asking the question; the Commissioner is sending along a memo on Question 3 and its possible impact on schools. In sum, the regulations on schools would not be changed if Question 3 fails (remember, a "yes" vote keeps the laws as we have them, including public accommodation); I'll add a note that this doesn't change the harm this would do to students everywhere else that they go.

Also being sent to the Board, but not on the agenda: an update on early college (full update coming at the January joint meeting with the Higher Ed board), a report on grants received by the Commissioner (another Word doc), a memo on the scheduling of district reviews (which sounds like a "don't have too many people bugging the district at once" thing), and a fairly lengthy memo on charter reauthorization. 


And yes, there will be liveblogging.