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This bill aims to enhance public transparency and support quality care outcomes in all child-serving organizations. Key provisions include: 1. Requiring state agencies to annually publish data on critical incidents, restraints, and substantiated reports of abuse or neglect for licensed, funded, or approved child-serving programs and facilities. The data must be reported in the aggregate and by individual program, with rates calculated based on factors like total hours of operation and attendance. 2. Establishing commissions to define levels of care for children with disabilities and provide recommendations for quality improvement using the published data. 3. Mandating the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education to publish student achievement data and other outcome measures for approved private special education schools and collaborative programs. 4. Directing state agencies to develop professional learning communities to periodically review the public information and advance program quality and improvement. The overall goal is to increase transparency and enable data-driven quality improvement efforts across the spectrum of child-serving organizations in Massachusetts.

Health and Social Services

https://malegislature.gov/Bills/191/S54