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

This decision also sends a concerning message to students that we don’t believe in their potential to meet high standards.

Now that Question 2 has passed, removing MCAS​ as a graduation requirement in Massachusetts schools, what are the standards ...

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 ...

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

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

After voters overwhelmingly voted to eliminate the requirement that high school students pass the MCAS exam in order to ...

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

Question 2 sought to eliminate the decades-long standardized test as a prerequisite to a high school diploma. It was backed ...

Massachusetts public high schoolers will no longer have to pass the 10th-grade standardized tests in math, English and ...

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.