School year 2023 to 2024 saw less students, slightly more graduation, and low student scores ... indicating a “disconnect” between skills acquired in high school and what kids need for ...

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MASS. — Massachusetts voters have elected to say “yes” to ballot question 2, eliminating the need for the Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System (MCAS) as a graduation requirement. According to ...

Lambert said opponents to Question 2 are now calling on state leaders to begin the process of “creating a new, strengthened, uniform high school graduation standard that preserves high ...

Schneider thanked Healey, Tutwiler, and Spilka, as well as others who “publicly voiced their opposition to removing our only statewide standard for public high school graduation.” ...

Students still must meet the state’s course requirements of gym and American history and civics, along with locally determined measures, set by the some 300 school ... high standards and others lower ...

Public high school students in Massachusetts can now ... to end the use of the controversial standardized tests as a graduation requirement. The Associated Press called the race just before ...

Committee for High Standards Not High Stakes led the campaign in support of the initiative ... The MTA stated, "Massachusetts residents are ready to join the vast majority of states that have scrapped ...

State education officials first proposed dropping the Regents requirement and other changes to high school graduation measures in June. Their plan was based on a series of recommendations made by ...

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