NEWS
• Proficiency, AYP, and the Challanges of Serving Transient Students and Meeting Accountability Standards for All Took place Saturday, October 14, 9:30am-12:30pm, Kennedy Elementary School, Somerville Download a powerpoint presentation on the "Impact of Student Mobility on Education" which will be discussed at the workshop.
   
• MASC President Maurice Hancock, Congressman Barney Frank, Past President Ken Pereira and President Elect Joseph Santos during last month's Federal Relations Network meeting in Washington DC. The MASC delegation presented five position papers on issues including NCL funding, mold remediation and Social Security/pension reform to the MA Congressional offices. The position papers can be read at Federal Relations Network 2006.

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Governor Romney Proposed Ed Reform Legislation powerpoint

• MASC President encourages assistance for Katrina victims. Ken Pereira urges MA School Committee Members to consider fundraising efforts to help children displaced by Hurricane Katrina.

• Facing Reality: Adequate Yearly Progress projections and MA schools. 
  MASC President encourages assistance for Katrina victims. Ken Pereira urges MA School Committee Members to consider fundraising efforts to help children displaced by Hurricane Katrina.
  What happens when good schools are labeled "failures"? A report just issued by MassPartners for Public Schools looks at current trends and projects the future for MA school districts under AYP.


• ALERT: NO CHILD LEFT BEHIND: GUIDELINES ON IMPLEMENTATION
  NSBA has compiled a report for school boards on the timetable and FAQs relative to the NCLB law. Also included: policy implications for MA. Timetable and FAQs, Policy Guidelines, Notification & Reporting Requirements

• ADEQUATE YEARLY PROGRESS IN NO CHILD LEFT BEHIND ACT DESCRIBED
  U.S. Secretary of Education Rod Paige today outlined for state and local leaders the adequate yearly progress (AYP) provisions of the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB). He provided the information in a letter to state and local education leaders throughout the country. The new definition of AYP will help states and districts accurately identify which schools need improvement and where they should focus their resources beginning in the 2003-04 school year. A list of the criteria on which state accountability systems will be judged is provided. The U.S. Department of Education expects to issue draft regulations in the very near future along with related guidance that will help states and school districts implement NCLB. Existing regulations and guidance may be viewed at: www.ed.gov/offices/OESE/asst.html.