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Top Democrats are leaving the door open to reassessing the role of Massachusetts’ long-controversial standardized testing system as some education advocates reinvigorate calls to abolish the tests or remove the requirement that high school seniors...
Massachusetts for the first time in at least eight years has a governor who may be more amenable to the idea of changes to the Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System, or MCAS.
Lawmakers created the Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System (MCAS) system in a 1993 education reform law that was aimed at improving accountability and...
Ricardo Rosa serves on Citizens for Public Schools' executive board, a non-profit which helps families understand the MCAS and their opt-out options.
BOSTON — One of the state’s major teachers’ unions is gearing up for the next legislative session with their eyes on hot-button topics including restoring public employees’ right to strike and ending “the destructive and punitive aspects of the MCAS...