The Board of Ed meets remotely Tuesday at 9 am

...and not surprisingly, it is nearly all pandemic related: agenda is here. The first item is a general overview--though it does not include the new remote learning guidance that I understand ('though haven't seen) was issued Friday. I would expect that it will take most of the time.

The one of two action items is a proposal regarding the small number of the class of 2020 would might have expected to complete their requirements for graduation by taking the MCAS this spring and achieving that required by the competency determination. You can find the backup on that here. As the memo says:

The recent return of results from the February and March 2020 retests showed that a only small number of current seniors—3,476 (4.9% of the current 12th graders)—have not yet earned their competency determination in one or more subjects, with 1,352 (1.9%) needing to pass only one test:
Need one subject 1,352
Need two subjects 583
Need three subjects 1,541
Based on past experience, we estimate that a significant portion of these remaining students will have also not met their district’s local graduation requirements. Many of these students will return for a fifth year of high school. Some are students with disabilities who are entitled to receive a free appropriate public education until they turn 22, if they have not earned a high school diploma.

The recommendation is a case-by-case "authorizing an emergency process through which students can earn the competency determination through successful completion of a relevant high school course."

There is also a budget update.

In non-pandemic news, there is also a proposed modification of the regulations for special education collaboratives in response to legal changes from January (which themselves are as a result of a review of the collaborative law from 2012).

It starts at 9, it will be online, and yes, I plan to liveblog it.