New graduation requirements likely to include a combination of end-of-course exams, senior projects and financial literacy ...

Students who left high school without a diploma because they didn’t pass their MCAS exams will get a second chance under new state guidance issued this week. The retroactive guidance, released Dec. 11 ...

The Massachusetts Department of Early and Secondary Education has approved new high school graduation requirements to replace the MCAS requirement repealed by voters last year. The new requirements ...

BOSTON (SHNS) – About 700 students every year leave high school without a diploma, who otherwise would have received one because they failed to pass Massachusetts’ required standardized test. Of ...

Massachusetts public school students have not regained their pre-pandemic performance levels on state standardized tests, particularly on the English portion of the exam, based on 2024 test results ...

BOSTON – Voters are set to make an important decision this November about the future of education in Massachusetts. Selecting "Yes" on Question 2 would end the MCAS graduation requirement that is ...

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.

It’s been nearly three decades since the Massachusetts Education Reform Act laid the groundwork for MCAS testing. This focus on outcomes in education propelled Massachusetts to first in the nation in ...

MCAS CHERRY POINT (WNCT) — After being postponed in 2020 due to the coronavirus pandemic, Marine Corp Air Station Cherry Point officials announced Wednesday there will be a show in 2021. At ...