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H660 • 2025

An Act concerning equitable state summative assessments of students

An Act concerning equitable state summative assessments of students

Education
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Sponsor
Kelly W. Pease
Last action
2025-10-29
Official status
Referred to Joint Committee on Education
Effective date
Not listed

Plain English Breakdown

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An Act concerning equitable state summative assessments of students

An Act concerning equitable state summative assessments of students By Representative Pease of Westfield, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No.

What This Bill Does

  • An Act concerning equitable state summative assessments of students By Representative Pease of Westfield, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No.
  • 660) of Kelly W.
  • Pease relative to state summative assessments of students.
  • Education.

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  • This entry is temporarily using official source text because the generated explanation could not be confirmed against the official bill text during the last sync.

Bill History

  1. 2025-10-29 Joint

    Hearing scheduled for 11/12/2025 from 11:00 AM-05:00 PM in Gardner Auditorium

  2. 2025-02-27 House

    Referred to the committee on Education

  3. 2025-02-27 Senate

    Senate concurred

Official Summary Text

An Act concerning equitable state summative assessments of students
By Representative Pease of Westfield, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 660) of Kelly W. Pease relative to state summative assessments of students. Education.
Status:
Referred to Joint Committee on Education

Current Bill Text

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Bill H.660

Section 1 of Chapter 69 of the General laws, as appearing in the 2020 Official Edition, is hereby amended by striking out item (4) and inserting in place thereof the following words, effective July 1, 2021:

“(4) to provide equity in opportunity for all children to reach their full potential, an effective mechanism in the form of a computer-adaptive assessment with a high enough ceiling and low enough floor to monitor the actual achievement and progress of individual students’ mastery through the various K-12 learning standards in English, Mathematics, Science and Social Studies, which mechanism seeks to identify, on an annual basis, the learning standards students likely have already mastered and those which they haven’t, for the purposes of identifying all students’ authentic growth, ensuring their continuous progress through those learning standards, identifying directly the actual level of each student’s learning readiness in the public classrooms of the Commonwealth, and of holding educators more accurately and fairly accountable through such authentic measure of students’ achievement and growth.”

Section 1I of Chapter 69 of the General Laws, as appearing in the 2020 Official Edition, is hereby amended by replacing the fourth sentence of the second paragraph with the following sentence, effective July 1, 2023:

“To provide equity in opportunity for all children to reach their full potential, such instruments shall be criterion-referenced and flexible enough to assess which levels of the various academic standards, described in this chapter, that students are meeting.”

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