Special Education

MCAS-Alt Decision Making Tool Translation and Availability

The Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education (DESE) has translated the MCAS-Alt Decision Making Tool and posted it the DESE website. The decision chart is a tool that may be used by to make annual decisions regarding appropriate student participation in the MCAS.

The translations are available on the IEP webpages for the different languages. They can be downloaded from the links below.

MCAS-Alt Decision Making Tool

• Albanian
• Arabic
• Cape Verdean
• Chinese
• English
• French
• Haitian Creole
• Hmong
• Japanese
• Khmer
• Korean
• Laotian
• Portuguese
• Russian
• Somali
• Spanish
• Vietnamese

DESE has also made it easier to access the tool by posting it to on the IEP Forms webpage.