With a $250,000 ad buy earlier this week, the fight for the future of the MCAS has officially begun. Massachusetts voters will decide in November whether the state will continue requiring the ...

For the first time in more than two decades, high school students in Massachusetts won’t have to pass a standardized test to ...

Massachusetts education officials are proposing ... to pass specific classes after voters last fall dropped the MCAS exam as a graduation requirement. “This is a change the voters have put ...

Until Massachusetts business leaders unify around a clear and common message, little will change and policy-makers will ...

He added, "The MCAS was put in place because of the business ... He cast the ballot question effort, which was pushed by the Massachusetts Teachers Association, as an effort by the union to ...

Despite the potentially temporary and supplemental nature of the MCAS-option proposal, it earned immediate push-back from the Massachusetts Teachers Association. “Comparing MCAS scores with ...

Massachusetts students no longer have to pass the MCAS to graduate. The ballot issue was approved back in November 2024. Education Secretary Patrick Tutwiler to speak to Springfield students on ...

When a pope dies or resigns, it is up to the College of Cardinals to elect a new pope. Any Roman Catholic male can be elected, but since 1379 every pope has been selected from the College of ...