A state education department proposal to set new targets for school districts as they recover from the COVID-19 pandemic is being met with criticism from the state's education board.
"Groups that are in the bottom quartiles, those that had the largest declines, would have the longest timelines to reach those recovery targets. And those with the smaller declines would have a short amount of time to get to the recovery point," Curtin said.
If students who fell behind are put on a"path to recovery" that will take four years, education board member Tricia Canavan said, it will be 2027 by the time these students get back to"full recovery," while some of their peers will have moved on to the"forward" pathway already. She added, and other members echoed, that 2019"can't be the goal" when there were significant education achievement gaps that year.
"We believe that what DESE has proposed is not what the law requires -- rather than a focus on closing achievement gaps, they're proposing targets to try to bring us back to 2019 levels, a year that was not terrific in terms of the size of these gaps," Lambert said. "I don't disagree with you that anytime you draw a line, right on one side of the line gets one treatment and right on the other side of the line gets another treatment," Curtin said to concerned board members."But in an effort to try to think about how to divide these up, we felt like that at some points you have to draw some lines."
Education reform in the 1990s made accountability a key component of statewide education policy and funding, using the MCAS scores as a tool to judge how schools are meeting expectations in student achievement.
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