Amendment ID: S2924-46

Amendment 46

Standing Commission on High Quality Curriculum

Messrs. Tarr and O'Connor move that the proposed new text be amended by striking out in subsection (a) the definition of “high-quality curriculum” and inserting place thereof the following definition:-

“High-quality curriculum”, a curriculum reviewed and approved by the standing commission on early literacy practices established in subsection (e).

And by adding in section 1E1/2, as inserted by section 3, the following subsection:-

(e) (1) There shall be a standing commission on early literacy practices to determine high-quality curriculum for early literacy, as described in this section. The department shall be within but not subject to the department.

(2)The standing commission established herein shall consist of 9 members, who shall include public school teachers, public school administrators, parents or guardians of students enrolled in a Massachusetts public school, early literacy experts, and faculty members at institutions of higher education in the commonwealth whose fields of study include education, literacy, linguistics, statistics, cognitive science, or neurology. Membership shall reflect a balance of practitioner experience, academic expertise, and family representation

(3) the standing commission established herein shall annually establish on June 1, for the academic year after the ensuing academic year, the curriculum materials that are high-quality curriculum.

(4) Annually by no later than December 31shall submit a report on the commissions activities to the clerks of the house and senate.