10/29/1997 SCHOOL COMMITTEE Minutes

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MASHP88 SCHOOL COMMITTEE - REGULAR MEETING - OCTOBER 29, 1997 PAGE 5 These are: 1. The --Line Transactional System 2. The Student Reporting stem 3. The Educator Certification and Tracking System . The DOE Intranet and Integrated Resource Management System It Is the hope of the Department of Education to eliminate o f the paperwork with school districts. 7.8 School Nursing Services - Included in the packet was information from the Executive office of Health and Human Services to the Massachusetts Association of School Superintendents stating that they are responsible for developing a plan to implement the recommendations of the Special Commission on school Nursing services to be presented to the Legislature on April 1, 1998. The Department is for ing ars advisory committee for the Provision of School Health Services i � Public and Non-Public Schools with representation from organizations concerned about child health. This was ars-invitation to those concerned if they would be interested in serving on the advisory committee. x7,10 Student Performance Standards - Dr. DeMoura explained that at the April, 1997 Board meeting a process and schedule for setting student performance standards for the Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System MCAs was reviewed. The process outlined the following four steps: . I etef e the number of performance levels 2. Establish general definitions for each level 3. Establish specific definitions for each level by content area and great level; and . set threshold scores for each of the performance levels on each of the tests, Dr. I el Moura said there are four performance levels involved. They are: Advanced, Proficient, Basic and At Disk. .11 Per Pupil cost 1993-1997 - In response to a request from the Finance Committee,mittee, r. DeMoura explained this mem