Code of Massachusetts Regulations › 603 CMR - DEPARTMENT OF ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY EDUCATION › Title 603 CMR 30.00 - Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment and Standards for Competency Determination › Section 30.02 - Definitions

Current through Register 1525, July 5, 2024
Board
shall mean the Board of
				Elementary and Secondary Education, appointed in accordance with M.G.L. c. 15,
				§ 1E.
Commissioner
shall mean the
				Commissioner of Elementary and Secondary Education.
Competency Determination
shall have
				the same meaning as described in M.G.L. c. 69, § 1D(i). In accordance with
				M.G.L. c. 69, § 1D(i), satisfaction of the requirements of the Competency
				Determination shall be a condition for high school graduation. A school
				committee (including the board of trustees of a charter school and, for
				publicly-funded Massachusetts special education students, the governing board
				of a private day or residential special education program) shall award the high
				school diploma or any other document connoting high school graduation only to a
				student who has satisfied the Competency Determination requirement and who has
				met local graduation requirements.
Consent
shall have the same meaning as
				described in
				603 CMR 28.02:
Consent
. Legal authority of the parent shall transfer
				to the student when the student reaches 18 years of age.
Educational Proficiency Plan
shall
				mean a plan developed for a student by his or her high school principal or
				designee designed to help the student move toward meeting grade level
				expectations in English language arts and/or mathematics and shall include
				those elements described in
				603 CMR
				30.03(7). Such plans and any
				updates to such plans must be shared with a student's parents or guardians in a
				timely fashion.
Graduating Class
. For purposes of
				603 CMR 30.00, students are
				assigned to the graduating class of the cohort of students they join when they
				first enter grades 9-12 in a Massachusetts public school system. For example, a
				student first entering 9th grade in fall 2022
				belongs to the class of 2026, a student entering as a
				10th grader in fall of 2022 belongs to the class of
				2025, and so forth. Once a student is assigned a particular cohort, the
				student's graduating class for purposes of
				603 CMR 30.00 never
				changes.
Individualized Education Program (IEP) and IEP
				Team
shall have the same meaning as described in
				603 CMR 28.02:
Definitions
.
Local Graduation Requirements
shall
				mean graduation criteria established by the student's school district including
				attendance, course completion and satisfactory grades.
MCAS
shall mean the Massachusetts
				Comprehensive Assessment System, the statewide assessment of individual
				students' academic performance, as required by M.G.L. c. 69, § 1I.
Student with a Disability
shall mean a
				student who has been determined to be eligible for special education services
				in accordance with the federal Individuals with Disabilities Education Act or
				M.G.L. c. 71B and
				603 CMR
				28.00:
Special Education
, or who has
				been determined to be an individual with disabilities under Section 504 of the
				federal Rehabilitation Act of 1973 or the Americans with Disabilities
				Act.