Employers have complained for years that high school and even college grads lack basic skills needed in the workforce.

Graduating from high school or college is a major accomplishment, and it’s certainly an occasion that calls for a party.

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World food prices surged in October, hitting an 18-month high and marking the highest level since April 2023. The increase was driven largely by a 7.3% spike in vegetable oil prices, with gains seen ...

Early Wednesday morning, the Associated Press said Question 2, the teachers union-backed ballot initiative abolishing the state’s only uniform high school graduation requirement, would win ...

"That question, if it passes, would deliver us to a place of no standard - essentially 351 different standards for high school graduation. I don't believe that is the right direction to go ...

The vote pulls down a central pillar of the state’s 1993 education reform law, and makes Massachusetts one of only two states with no statewide requirements for high school graduation.

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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 ...

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 ...

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.” ...

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 ...