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High school juniors won t need to pass MCAS to graduate in 2022
By Katie Lannan
State House News Service
This year s high school junior class will not need to take or pass MCAS tests in order to graduate, under a change approved last week by the Board of Elementary and Secondary Education.
The move is one of a series of pandemic-influenced shifts the state has made within its standardized testing program since COVID-19 first shuttered school buildings last spring.
Students are typically required to pass 10th grade English and math MCAS exams in order demonstrate competency in the two subjects and graduate. Last year s 10th graders, the class of 2022, did not have an opportunity to take those tests last spring because education officials obtained a federal waiver and legislative approval to cancel the spring 2020 MCAS administration in the early days of remote learning.
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Xochilth Urena, 18, a senior at Lawrence High School, sits in the schoolâs cafeteria on May 4, 2021. Urena said when she and her classmates talk about going to college, it often boils down to two things: money and motivation. âA lot of people in Lawrence want to be rappers, or I have friends that are nail technicians,â she said. âThey just don t see college as an option.â
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As long as she can remember, Xochilth Urena said sheâs wanted to go to college in the United States.
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BOSTON This year s high school junior class will not need to take or pass MCAS tests in order to graduate, under a change approved Tuesday by the Board of Elementary and Secondary Education.
The move is one of a series of pandemic-influenced shifts the state has made within its standardized testing program since COVID-19 first shuttered school buildings last spring.
Students are typically required to pass 10th grade English and math MCAS exams in order demonstrate competency in the two subjects and graduate. Last year s 10th graders, the class of 2022, did not have an opportunity to take those tests last spring because education officials obtained a federal waiver and legislative approval to cancel the spring 2020 MCAS administration in the early days of remote learning.