November Board of Ed: measures of progress and goals

 memo on this is here but I am just going to plunk them all here: 

1.     By 2026, the state will return to pre-pandemic levels (or higher) of the percentage of students meeting or exceeding expectations on the MCAS:

a.      Increase grades 3-8 ELA by 10 percentage points to 52 percent of students meeting or exceeding expectations

b.     Increase grade 10 ELA by 5 percentage points to 63 percent of students meeting or exceeding expectations

c.      Increase grades 3-8 Math by 8 percentage points to 49 percent of students meeting or exceeding expectations

d.     Increase grade 10 Math by 9 percentage points to 59 percent of students meeting or exceeding expectations

2.     By 2026, the state will return to pre-pandemic levels (or lower) of the percentage of students who are chronically absent:

a.      Decrease the non-high school chronic absenteeism rate by at least 9.4 percentage points to 9.0 percent

b.     Decrease the high school chronic absenteeism rate by at least 9.1 percentage points to 17.3 percent

3.     By 2026, at least 85,000 high-school students will be enrolled in a designated high school college-and-career pathway or program (e.g., Career and Technical Education, including Chapter 74 and “After Dark” programs, Innovation Career Pathways, and Early College).

4.     By 2026, the percentage of diverse staff in schools and districts will increase by at least 4 points to 17.9 percent.

5.     By 2027, the state will offer structured professional learning on evidence-based practices for literacy for all teachers and administrators with responsibility for early literacy.

Riley: "do think we're going to need some significant finance support" on early literacy
West: notice all are aimed at 2026 or 27
how should we think about interim steps towards those goals?
Riley: at lot of setting targets 
grants on absenteeism
"firmly believe it's the biggest lever we can pull...going to propose upping the weight on chronic absenteeism"
Curtin: when we were developing these, thought it was important to be consistent on how we talk about coming out of the pandemic
are happy to provide interim measures of progress towards these goals
have also talked about uncertainty about MCAS
"but understand it might not necessarily be linear"
provide updates on progress making annually

Stewart: to me, it feels like it's a call for deeper engagement for families and for students
"how will you help districts to achieve deeper engagement with families"
Riley: $4M in grants (for over 300 districts...right)
webinar "and getting the word out"
"a lot of parents don't know that kids are chronically absent"
"we have never really communicated to families" about 
"have overly communicated the other message 'if you're sick, stay home'"
Stewart: you were really interested in checking in with students and families "because we don't know"
hear about range of issues with students and families
Riley: "I really appreciate that"
"really moving to engage our families in a way we haven't done before"
"I'm meeting with families in the future to keep getting the message out"
(that isn't listening to them)

Hills: set expectations for a year from now
consider in light of what asks of Secretary are

Moriarty: assuming still on measures of progress

goals are adopted as provided