Something I want to flag for #MAEdu this morning:
The Board of Ed meets next Tuesday; agenda is here:
You will note the second item on the agenda is "Proposed Amendments to Student Learning Time Regulations, 603 CMR 27.00 (Standards for Remote Learning and Hybrid Learning) — Discussion and Vote to Adopt Emergency Regulations"
You will also note there is no backup as yet:
In other words, the actual proposed emergency regulations that the Commissioner will be asking the Board to adopt on the spot next Tuesday are not actually publicly available as yet.
Note that the deadline to file to comment next Tuesday is today at 5 pm.
The Board passing regulations is roughly equivalent to school committees passing policy changes, something which generally goes through multiple readings at multiple meetings (or passes through subcommittees or both) because public process is super important.
Not so much, here.
Let me share the bit that I do know (there is, of course, nothing as yet in writing, because...see above).