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“This is an issue that educators have been passionate about for quite some time,” said Deb McCarthy, the union’s vice president, on Sunday.
A day after the the Massachusetts ballot initiative deadline, education advocates are settling in for a long, heated campaign over the petition to remove the MCAS test as a graduation requirement.
Currently, high school students must pass Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System exams in English, math, and science to graduate.
Shelly Scruggs, a Lexington resident and mother to a 15-year-old boy, said her son is rising senior at Minuteman Vocational High School and wants to be a plumber, but he
Sam Drysdale, State House News Service A mom has officially filed a petition to put on the statewide ballot the question of whether students should be required to pass a standardized test in order to graduate, but it wasn’t the state’s large teacher’s union, which has been publicly considering whether to bring the question to […]