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 ...

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 ...

Gov. Maura Healey this week released the initial framework for a new high school graduation standard in Massachusetts… to replace the MCAS requirement that voters tossed out a year ago. While there ...

Massachusetts voters on Tuesday chose to end the use of MCAS scores as a high school graduation requirement, voting about 59 percent in favor of ballot Question 2, according to incomplete AP results.

Taunton High School graduation requirements now include passing grades in Biology, 10th grade English, Algebra 1, and Geometry. These changes follow the statewide removal of the MCAS test as a ...

State voters are being asked on the Nov. 5 election ballot to decide whether the Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System test should remain a criterion for graduation. If a majority of voters ...