BOSTON (WWLP) – The Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System (MCAS) scores for 2025 have been released, revealing a decline in student performance across the state. This is the first set of MCAS ...

(WPRI) — Massachusetts voters could be changing a graduation requirement for high schoolers when they cast their ballots in November. A “yes” vote on Question 2 of the state’s 2024 Ballot Questions ...

Gov. Maura Healey unveiled a new framework Monday for statewide graduation requirements that center on end-of-course exams.

Voters in 2024 approved a ballot law to eliminate the MCAS graduation requirement. Now, the K-12 Statewide Graduation Council ...

Passing the tests would not be a condition of receiving a diploma, as it was under the former "high stakes" MCAS system, but ...

A week out from the Nov. 5 election in which voters will decide whether to toss the state’s MCAS graduation requirement, Massachusetts education officials continued to refrain from giving the public ...

As scores on statewide standardized tests rolled in Tuesday, revealing that students are still struggling from pandemic-related learning losses, education officials contemplated an overhaul of the ...

EDITORIAL SPEAKING ON BEHALF OF THE EDITORIAL BOARD, WCVB PRESIDENT AND GENERAL MANAGER KYLE GRIMES, MASSACHUSETTS VOTERS HAVE SPOKEN, AND IT WILL NO LONGER BE A REQUIREMENT FOR PUBLIC HIGH SCHOOL ...

Though MCAS scores for the latest round of testing were "sobering" statewide, there were some local successes, including in Amherst. Credit: CREATIVE COMMONS Sign up for the Gazette's morning ...