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

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

Though the MCAS is no longer a statewide graduation requirement, some districts are considering how to best use the test in the future. All districts must still administer the high school MCAS to ...

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 ...

“Comparing MCAS scores with competency determinations based on satisfactory completion of coursework continues to draw a false analogy and could allow districts to put more focus on test ...

MCAS no longer stands in a Fall River Public Schools student's way of graduating. Current public school students are required to test this year to help determine course competency. Students who ...

and to solicit comment about a second potential pathway to graduation that could still feature use of the MCAS exams.

BOSTON (SHNS) – The Massachusetts Board of Education could advance draft regulations Tuesday in response to a voter-approved law that removed the requirement that students to pass the MCAS exam ...

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 ...

HAVE NOT HEARD BACK. IT’S 508. ONLY ON FIVE. LAST ELECTION DAY, MASSACHUSETTS VOTERS VOTED IN FAVOR OF ELIMINATING THE MCAS TEST AS A GRADUATION REQUIREMENT. NOW, AN EXCLUSIVE NEW POLL SHOWS ...

Having already rolled out draft regulations in response to a voter-approved law that removed the requirement that students to pass the MCAS exam to graduate high school, the board discussed a ...