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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

When Mei Lu moved to Massachusetts two years ago, she had deep concerns about a state mandate requiring students to pass the MCAS standardized tests to receive their diplomas because she thought it ...

WITH WHAT WE LEARNED. THE MESSAGE TO PARENTS BRITTANY. WELL, ED AND ERICA, WE KNOW EARLY LEARNERS ARE STILL FEELING THE IMPACT OF THE COVID PANDEMIC AND TODAY’S RESULTS. THE WORST FOR LANGUAGE ARTS 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 ...