River Public Schools will review transcripts for all who graduated after 2003. You may be eligible for a diploma if you ...

Many districts have settled on requiring passing grades in math, English language arts and science classes. The standards are ...

Now that passing the MCAS test is no longer a requirement to graduate from Massachusetts high schools, officials in Fall River will retroactively award diplomas to students who met every other ...

To meet this so-called “competency determination,” students since 2003 had been required to pass 10th grade MCAS exams. That changed in November, with the overwhelming passage of ballot ...

Massachusetts voted in favor of eliminating the requirement that a student pass the MCAS to graduate from high school, but ...

Findings from the new poll give new insights into how Massachusetts residents are feeling about some thorny issues.

Massachusetts voters approved a significant change to the state’s education policy by eliminating the 10th-grade MCAS (Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System) test as a graduation ...

The Board of Elementary and Secondary Education voted unanimously to put its proposed competency determination regulations out for public comment, and to solicit comment about a second potential ...

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

the vote to eliminate the MCAS test as a high school graduation requirement. The board plans to meet again on February 25th to present their draft documents from today’s meeting.

Here’s what it does “Comparing MCAS scores with competency determinations ... analogy and could allow districts to put more focus on test preparation than on diversified, high-quality teaching ...

Rodrigues was among the lawmakers who opposed the ballot measure which decoupled the exam from the state's long-held ...