BOSTON, MA (FRANKLIN COUNTY NOW) — Governor Healey signed an executive order to establish a Massachusetts K-12 Statewide Graduation Council to make recommendations on how to ensure all students who graduate can demonstrate necessary skills to succeed.
The Council will be considering what those necessary skills and knowledge are exactly, gathering feedback in regional listening sessions, and reviewing current practices across the country to form their recommendations.
The Council will be comprised of stakeholders, including students, parents/caregivers, educators, school counselors, labor, education advocacy organizations, higher education representatives, legislators, and the business community.
Council members, or designees, include:
- Speaker of the House of Representatives
- President of the Senate
- Minority leader of the House of Representatives
- Minority leader of the Senate
- Massachusetts Teachers Association
- AFT-MA
- Boston Teachers Union
- Massachusetts School Counselors Association
- Massachusetts Association of School Superintendents
- Massachusetts Association of Vocational Administrators
- Massachusetts School Administrators’ Association
- Massachusetts Association of School Committees
- Massachusetts Charter Public Schools Association
- Teacher representative
- Public school student representative of Governor’s Youth Advisory Council
- Public school student representative from State Student Advisory Council
- Three additional geographically diverse public school students identified by the co-chairs
- Massachusetts Association of Community Colleges
- State Universities Council of Presidents
- Commissioner of Higher Education
- Massachusetts Business Alliance for Education
- Massachusetts Taxpayers Foundation
- Massachusetts Business Roundtable
- Non-profit organization whose work involves access to postsecondary opportunities
- Five additional representatives appointed by the co-chairs on behalf of the Governor who shall represent a diversity of perspectives and backgrounds, including experience with the education of students with disabilities and English learners