Mayor Michelle Wu in March celebrated Boston Public Schools’ all-time high graduation rate of 81.3% — a 1.6% increase from ...

BOSTON - Now that Question 2 has passed, removing MCAS as a graduation requirement in Massachusetts schools, are standards for high school graduation in the state practically nonexistent? One civic ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. State voters are being asked on the Nov. 5 election ballot to decide whether the Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The doctor she’d seen insisted she had chronic hives, but Dr. Barkoff couldn’t help but suspect that it was something else, given ...

BOSTON - Why have Massachusetts MCAS scores measuring student learning and retention continued their years-long slide to well below pre-pandemic levels? Education Secretary Patrick Tutwiler said ...

School buses lined up outside of New Mission High School in Hyde Park awaiting students prior to school release in 2023. (Jesse Costa/WBUR) Politics these days are more of a duel than a deliberation.

BOSTON (SHNS) – The state’s largest teachers union is supporting educators who object to giving statewide standardized tests and informing parents on how they can opt their children out of the exams, ...

Question 2 on the November ballot seeks to end a state mandate that Massachusetts public high school students pass the MCAS in order to graduate. Load YouTube video The MCAS, officially called the ...

Schools in Massachusetts are the envy of the nation. But Question 2 threatens one of the foundations of the state’s success. High school diplomas in Massachusetts, a state official told the Globe in ...

Sen. Paul Feeney of Foxborough said the MCAS ballot question as written could create a "wild, wild west of a patchwork of different assessments across the commonwealth." Over more than three hours of ...

WATCH: Reporter Mandy McLaren goes behind the numbers to explain the path forward for schools and students. The Massachusetts Teachers Association has collected more than 130,000 signatures — far more ...