Hearings on Charters, Accountability, and Testing

The BEA has Association Days if you would like to attend State House hearings on MTA's priority preK-12 issues before the Joint Committee on Education. Both hearings are currently scheduled to be held at 10 a.m. on the dates listed below. These bills were generated by our members: Make your voices heard.

• May 26, the committee will hear testimony on legislation related to charter schools and school and district accountability, including an MTA-backed bill that would place a three-year moratorium on the approval of new charter schools and require all Commonwealth charter school teachers to be licensed.

• June 11, the committee will consider bills on testing, including an MTA-supported bill to impose a three-year moratorium on the high-stakes use of all standardized tests, as well as a three-year moratorium on the administration of the PARCC tests. 

More details, including hearing locations and instructions on signing up to testify, will be posted here. If you cannot come to a hearing, please be alert for calls to action to spread the word about testing and charters and how they are undermining public education.