Cambridge Public School students scored higher than their peers across the state on the 2025 science and civics Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System exam — though the data point to enduring ...

BOSTON - Now that Question 2 has passed, removing MCAS as a graduation requirement in Massachusetts schools, are standards for high school graduation in the state practically nonexistent? One civic ...

BOSTON – Voters are set to make an important decision this November about the future of education in Massachusetts. Selecting "Yes" on Question 2 would end the MCAS graduation requirement that is ...

BOSTON — Opponents of using the Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System test as a high school graduation requirement suggest there are better ways to measure student achievement, should voters ...

School buses lined up outside of New Mission High School in Hyde Park awaiting students prior to school release in 2023. (Jesse Costa/WBUR) Politics these days are more of a duel than a deliberation.

The learning loss that came about as a result of the pandemic and its shift towards remote schooling for more than two years is still showing up in standardized test results, state education officials ...