If the ballot question passes, students will still take the test to gather data about student performance, according to ...

Experts said that if the test requirement is repealed, the state should consider alternate graduation requirements to ensure ...

A ballot question this fall will give voters the opportunity to eliminate the requirement that students pass the MCAS ...

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

Letter: If we want our students to be college and career ready, requiring them to pass one test is not the way, Yarmouth ...

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

While Healey and others have maintained their position against lowering graduation standards, three polls show the "yes" vote ...

Battle lines continue to form around a ballot question to change a key component of the education reform law that some say ...

Letter-writers to The Republican sound off on the 2024 election, a Springfield police officer's retirement, the Barnes air ...

Healey will vote 'no' on Question 2 to end the use of MCAS as a graduation requirement and Question 5 to phase out the ...

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

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