When Massachusetts voters head to the polls on Nov. 5, all eyes will be on a hotly contested referendum: whether to eliminate a statewide exam as a high school graduation requirement.

For the many families with students in special education, the MCAS experience is fraught with fear and frustration.

We’re back with another deep dive into one of the state’s five ballot questions. Up next: Question 2, which is all about the MCAS.

proposes eliminating the requirement that a student passes the 10th grade Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System (MCAS ...

Experts said that if the test requirement is repealed, the state should consider alternate graduation requirements to ensure ...

The Mount Greylock Regional School Committee last week had a microcosm of the debate with which voters around the ...

North Atlantic right whale is facing extinction The North Atlantic right whales have long lived off the coast of Massachusetts, but now they’re dangerously close to extinction. To avoid this, we ...

If Question 2 passes, students would no longer need to meet specific competency levels on the MCAS to graduate, although the ...

First Amendment: Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the ...

Ethel Kennedy, the Kennedy family matriarch, philanthropist and wife of assassinated former United States Attorney General ...

Thousands of mail-in ballots have been sent out to voters in communities in Hampshire County, southern Franklin County and in ...