Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. FALL RIVER — The School Committee took a stand on Monday night against the use of the MCAS standardized test as a high school ...

FALL RIVER — Fall River Public Schools will still implement the MCAS test this school year, even though a state ballot measure passed to eliminate MCAS as a graduation requirement. Because MCAS test ...

Massachusetts public high schools have experienced a sharp decline in 10th graders passing all three MCAS exams over the last five years with the latest scores showing approximately16,000 students ...

BOSTON (WWLP) – Each year, 700 Massachusetts high school seniors do not receive their diplomas, solely because of failure to pass the state’s required standardized testing, the MCAS. Advocates say ...

A week out from the Nov. 5 election in which voters will decide whether to toss the state’s MCAS graduation requirement, Massachusetts education officials continued to refrain from giving the public ...

FALL RIVER — The School Committee took a stand on Monday night against the use of the MCAS standardized test as a high school graduation requirement. Representatives from the Fall River Educators ...

Massachusetts voters recently approved a change to the state's education policy, eliminating the 10th-grade MCAS test as a graduation requirement. While students still need to take the MCAS exams in ...

MCAS testing plans went up in flames at one Uxbridge school Tuesday, after a smoking laptop burned a student and caused an evacuation during the exam. The MCAS English Language Arts exam was in ...

BOSTON – A sixth grade student at a Massachusetts school suffered burns when the laptop they were using began smoking during MCAS testing. It happened Tuesday around 9:30 a.m. at Whitin Intermediate ...