Heading in the opposite direction from voters, the Frontier Regional School District is considering keeping the recently downgraded MCAS test as a must to earn a high school diploma. “At this time, ...

Massachusetts scores peaked more than a decade ago after 20 years of progress, but the pandemic accelerated declines. Even ...

Springfield students already must pass four years of English and math and three years of science and social studies to ...

The good news is that most seniors at Foxboro High School should be unaffected by last November’s ballot referendum that struck down statewide standardized exams as a graduation requirement.

With the overwhelming passage of the ballot initiative to end the MCAS requirement for high school ... read, study, and test” format to something that looks and feels a lot more like ...

It’s clear that Massachusetts students no longer have to pass 10th grade MCAS tests in English, math, and science to graduate from high school. But determining exactly what they do need to do to ...

See Correction/Clarification at the end of this article. Despite the passage of ballot Question 2 last November, the majority of voters agree with what local business leaders have been saying: A ...

During its first meeting in the new year, the Lowell School Committee updated the district’s high school graduation ...

The committee discussed a new graduation standard following a ballot initiative that removed the state standardized test as a ...