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School Committee Comes to Teacher Contract Agreement, Opts to Use MCAS

June 17th's School Committee meeting included an agreement on teacher contracts and a unanimous decision on proficiency testing.

At the Mansfield School Committee meeting on Tuesday, June 17th, the committee and the Mansfield Educators Association came to a contract agreement after nearly 1 ½ years of negotiations, according to the Sun Chronicle.

Contracts for the 2013-2014 school year and a three-year contract that will expire in 2017 were approved, and will include pay increases of 2 percent in 2014, 1.25 percent in 2015, and 2 percent in 2016 and 2017. Mansfield teachers had been operating without a contract since August 31, 2013, so the agreement was welcomed with relief.

The Sun Chronicle also reported that the school committee voted unanimously to continue using the MCAS exam as a measure of student proficiency, rather than switching to the PARCC assessment. The PARCC is a new, online alternative to the MCAS.  

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School districts were given the option to continue to use the MCAS exam in 2014 while adjusting to the PARCC, after the state Department of Education approved a 2-year transition plan to the new exam.


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