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603 CMR 2.00

Accountability and Assistance for School Districts and Schools

Section:

  • 2.01: Scope, and Purpose
  • 2.02: Definitions
  • 2.03: Accountability and Assistance for All Districts and Schools
  • 2.04: Self-Assessments for Districts and Schools Requiring Assistance or Intervention
  • 2.05: Accountability and Assistance for Underperforming Districts and Schools
  • 2.06: Accountability and Assistance for Chronically Underperforming Districts and Schools
  • 2.07: Mathematics Content Assessments at Underperforming and Chronically Underperforming Schools
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Most Recently Amended by the Board of Education: June 28, 2022

2.07 Mathematics Content Assessments at Underperforming and Chronically Underperforming Schools

(1) Requirement of taking a mathematics content assessment The superintendent or the school's receiver, if any, may require all mathematics teachers at an underperforming school to take a mathematics content assessment approved by the Department. The commissioner or the school's receiver, if any, may require all mathematics teachers at a chronically underperforming school to take a mathematics content assessment approved by the Department. A mathematics teacher shall be required to take a mathematics content assessment pursuant to 603 CMR 2.07(1) no more than once a year.

(2) Use of results Individual results on a mathematics content assessment taken pursuant to 603 CMR 2.07(1) shall be used by the mathematics teacher and the school principal in developing or revising professional development plans, as provided in the Recertification Regulations, 603 CMR 44.04(4), and shall be considered by school and district administrators in turnaround planning in the school. These individual results are to be used for diagnostic and turnaround planning purposes only, and individual mathematics teachers' results shall not be considered public records.

(3) Exceptions

  1. (a) A mathematics teacher who would otherwise be required to take a mathematics content assessment pursuant to 603 CMR 2.07(1) shall not be required to take it if the teacher:

    1. has passed the Elementary Mathematics, Middle School Mathematics, or Mathematics test of the Massachusetts Tests for Educator Licensure or has passed or been deemed under 603 CMR 7.14(14)(g) to have passed the Mathematics subtest of the General Curriculum test of the Massachusetts Tests for Educator Licensure; and

    2. is appropriately licensed for the mathematics the teacher is teaching.

  2. (b) The superintendent or commissioner or the schools receiver, if any, may waive the mathematics content assessment requirement for an individual mathematics teacher based on a finding that the teacher has demonstrated mastery of mathematics or that special circumstances exist that make the assessment requirement inappropriate or immaterial.

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Last Updated: July 1, 2022

 
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