The campaign that pushed to eliminate MCAS scores as a statewide graduation requirement via the ballot box last fall missed a ...

DOLLAR SIGNS — Gov. Maura Healey will report raising $565,000 in June, according to her campaign, her biggest single-month ...

The group that backed a successful ballot question to end the use of the MCAS as a high school graduation requirement paid a ...

NBC 10 Boston reported that DESE voted "to pass new regulations around the use of controversial 'time-out' rooms in schools ...

Debate over school control, a change in graduation requirements and the threat of cyberattacks. Those were just a few of the ...

A high-stakes battle over the future of education is playing out in the state that has long had the best public schools in the nation – Massachusetts. The likely overhaul of high school education and ...

After one term on the New Bedford School Committee, Ross M. Grace, Jr. announced today via his Facebook page that he will not ...

Valedictorian for the Class of 2025 at Westport Middle High School is Tess Silvia. Tess is the daughter of Michael and Lori ...

Before November, graduation requirements in Massachusetts incorporated both a competency determination — usually measured with the MCAS — and local requirements set by school committees.

This question proposes eliminating the Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System, or MCAS, as a graduation requirement for all public high school students. Voting yes would mean siding with ...

On Election Day, Massachusetts voters passed the Question 2 ballot initiative, which removed the MCAS standardized test as a graduation requirement for public school students. People enter the Boston ...