Session Laws

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:

Clause (i) of the fourth paragraph of section 1D of chapter 69 of the General Laws, as appearing in section 29 of chapter 71 of the acts of 1993, is hereby amended by striking out the first sentence and inserting in place thereof the following sentence:- The "competency determination" shall be based on the academic standards and curriculum frameworks for tenth graders in the areas of mathematics, science and technology, history and social science, foreign languages, and English, and shall represent a determination that a particular student has demonstrated mastery of a common core of skills, competencies and knowledge in these areas, as measured by the assessment instruments described in section one I.