Governor Maura Healey proposed a curriculum change for high schools across the state, one that would phase out the MCAS graduation requirement voters eliminated last year. The state announced the ...

If a state with a reputation for educational excellence is holding up a district where fewer than half of students are meeting or exceeding the commonwealth's assessment benchmarks, then we ...

MASSACHUSETTS — A new system of statewide core subject assessment tests to replace the single 10th-grade MCAS test — which Bay State voters rejected as a graduation requirement in a statewide ballot ...

As part of its regular meeting on Dec. 17, 2025, Tewksbury School Committee Chair Bridget Garabe­dian convened the meet­ing ...

A new set of proposed statewide graduation requirements has lawmakers and educators asking questions about continued reliance ...

Massachusetts voted to remove the MCAS test as a high school graduation requirement in November 2024. The state has proposed a new framework to be finalized in 2026, leaving schools to create ...

The state is mandating that school districts develop a competency evaluation plan now that the 10th grade MCAS scores are no ...

Gov. Maura Healey shared the broad strokes of a new statewide high school graduation framework Monday, more than a year after Massachusetts voted overwhelmingly to remove the MCAS exam as a gateway to ...

Rochester Memorial School is among 63 schools in Massachusetts to reach or exceed pre-pandemic levels in the 2025 MCAS test for math or English. The school was recently honored by the Massachusetts ...

Kudos to the Boston Globe editorial board for accepting the fact that there are better ways to assess student achievement than the one-dimensional MCAS (“New graduation requirement should include ...