Tuesday, January 27, 2026

Board of Ed for January: seal of biliteracy

 up for vote for change in regulations

this is coming back from public comment, the summary of which is here

DESE is proposing two additional changes in response to public comment; the proposed final regulations are here

This again is coming out of the changes to competency determination
I am not going to type again what this is about; you can find that in my notes from October

Summary of comments: 


Two additional changes: 
  1. permit districts to include seal insignia and/or a line of text stating the student earned the seal and in which language it was earned
  2. require not only reporting annually from districts, but also the specific languages and if students earned more than one
Hills: and I couldn't hear his question at all
response seems to be about MCAS usage for this? 
and whatever his summary was that I couldn't hear at all was accurate
West: think it's good we're addressing this issue now, as graduation council has talked about additional seals
Board votes approval 

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