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

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 ...

In 2024, Massachusetts voted in favor of eliminating the requirement that a student pass the Massachusetts Comprehensive ...

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

The petition on the ballot would eliminate the 10th-grade MCAS as a graduation requirement. That’s the test students have to pass at some point to receive their diplomas. The teachers union is ...

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

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

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 ...

The state’s largest teachers union, meanwhile, said the continued use of MCAS scores in determining ... foundations that matter, and not on test prep,” Massachusetts Teachers Association ...

SOUTH DEERFIELD — Frontier Regional School District students can now breathe a sigh of relief as the Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System test is no longer a hurdle they must clear to ...