and 18 out of 60 points on the biology exam. The tests are administered to 10th-graders every spring on separate subjects, ...

A lot happens in Boston every day. To help you keep up, WBUR, Boston's NPR News station, pulled these stories together just ...

The change goes into immediate effect, freeing the class of 2025 from passing exams in English, math, and science in order to ...

Question 2, championed by the Massachusetts Teachers Association, successfully threw out the MCAS standardized testing ...

Massachusetts voters resoundingly approved a ballot question that will remove the requirement that high school students pass ...

The passing score for biology is 467; for physics it is 470 ... She recognized that there are problems with the MCAS but said ...

Massachusetts students will no longer have to pass the MCAS exam to earn a diploma in Massachusetts. Question 2, which advanced with a hard push by the Massachusetts Teachers Association, prevailed in ...

Voters shall have the opportunity to make Massachusetts’ educational system more just for all students. By voting YES on ...

Massachusetts voters on Tuesday decided by a wide margin to eliminate the requirement to pass the MCAS tests in order to ...

In 2003, the state began ordering all public school students to pass the 10th grade Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System (MCAS) test in order to graduate. It has been one of fewer than a ...

Question 2 repeals the requirement that students pass the Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System, which all public school students are required to take in 10th grade, in order to graduate high ...

I am a longtime educator and I plan to vote “Yes” on Question 2, which would replace the MCAS test as a high school graduation requirement. Instead, students would need to demonstrate that ...