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Massachusetts stopped using PARCC items in 2019. The hybrid phase is over. (from the 2019 MA tech report)

1.3.3	Background on the Transition to Next-Generation Assessments The Board’s vote of November 2015 was the culmination of a multi-year process to develop a plan for transitioning Massachusetts to next-generation assessments. Following are some key milestones from that process: •	2010: Massachusetts joins PARCC, a multi-state consortium formed to develop a new set of assessments for ELA and mathematics. •	2013: The Board votes to conduct a two-year “test drive” of the PARCC assessments to decide whether Massachusetts should adopt them in place of the existing MCAS assessments in ELA and mathematics. •	2014: The PARCC assessments are field-tested in a randomized sample of schools in Massachusetts and in the other consortium states. •	Spring 2015: Massachusetts districts (including charter schools and vocational-technical high schools) are given the choice of administering either PARCC or MCAS to their students in grades 3–8. Roughly half of the students at those grade levels take the MCAS assessments, and roughly half take PARCC. •	November 2015: Former Commissioner Mitchell Chester recommends to the Board that the state transition to a next-generation MCAS that would be administered for the first time in spring 2017 and that would utilize both MCAS and PARCC test items. The Board votes to endorse his recommendation. •	Spring 2017: Next-generation MCAS tests are administered statewide in ELA and mathematics grades 3–8 for the first time. The tests include a mixture of MCAS and PARCC items. •	Spring 2018: The second administration of next-generation MCAS tests in ELA and mathematics grades 3–8. PARCC items are used only for a small number of mathematics items. •	Spring 2019: The third administration of next-generation MCAS tests in ELA and mathematics grades 3–8. The first administration in ELA and mathematics grade 10 and science and technology/engineering (STE) grades 5 and 8. The tests include only MCAS items and PARCC items are no longer included.