On Nov. 5, Massachusetts voters will decide whether to keep the state’s two-decade-old state test graduation requirement. The ballot measure, Question 2, would repeal the need for students to ...

Still, about 700 of them — or 1% of the roughly 70,000 annual class size — who somehow otherwise completed their graduation requirements do not pass this test ... the 10th grade MCAS or ...

13 Globe editorial noted (“Defending the MCAS from evidence-free attacks ... Voices for Academic Equity coalition. Myopic focus on test prep means students are missing out We at Citizens ...

The MCAS tests aren’t easy. They take hours, require study, practice ... 5 election ballot. The Grade 10 MCAS tests English Language Arts, Mathematics, and one of the high school Science ...

BOSTON — Critics of high-stakes testing are urging voters to approve a proposal to remove the MCAS exam requirement to graduate from high school, but critics say the move would eliminate a ...

A week out from the Nov. 5 election in which voters will decide whether to toss the state’s MCAS graduation requirement, Massachusetts education officials continued to refrain from giving the ...

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Before Massachusetts created the MCAS graduation requirement as part of its Education Reform Act of 1993, Latino students faced disproportionately lower graduation rates, college admissions ...

5 state election ballot is a proposal to eliminate the requirement that a student pass the MCAS tests in mathematics, science and technology, and English in order to received a high school diploma.

Across Massachusetts, students have been performing poorly on the MCAS English test ever since the pandemic ... chronic absenteeism rate down to 19.5%." Doing so requires communication between ...

SpaceX on Sunday carried out its fifth flight test of Starship, a powerful rocket that Elon Musk hopes will one day take humans to Mars. The spacecraft launched shortly after 8 a.m. ET in Boca ...