One potential path forward is to require MassCore, a set of general education courses for high school students, that would ...

"The elimination of the MCAS graduation requirement takes away restraints that have held back some of our best and most ...

Massachusetts residents voted to end the MCAS graduation requirement. But some students will still be taking retests this ...

Massachusetts voters on Tuesday decided by a wide margin to eliminate the requirement to pass the MCAS tests in order to ...

After voters overwhelmingly cast their ballots to eliminate the requirement that Massachusetts high school students pass the ...

The Secretary of the Commonwealth said the earliest the law would take effect is Dec. 5. The Legislature still needs to ...

MCAS Cherry Point has scheduled training operations to start this weekend.Officials say the air station and their outlying ...

The School Committee meeting yesterday included an in-depth presentation of how their schools performed on the Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System (MCAS). Dr. Maureen Lueke, principal of the ...

High schoolers in Massachusetts will no longer need to pass the MCAS to receive their diploma after voters overwhelmingly ...

John Schneider, chair of Protect Our Kids’ Future: Vote No on 2, noted in a statement that “those responsible for the state’s ...

The argument for keeping the MCAS exam as a graduation requirement is based around maintaining high, universal standards ...

A lot happens in Boston every day. To help you keep up, WBUR, Boston's NPR News station, pulled these stories together just ...