A small group of union activists, parents, and high school graduates filed a ballot initiative Wednesday, with the backing of the state’s largest teachers union, that would end a state provision ...

Question 2 on the Nov. 5 ballot seeks the elimination of the Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System exam as a high school graduation requirement. This would mean that as long as a student meets ...

Question 2 on the November ballot seeks to end a state mandate that Massachusetts public high school students pass the MCAS in order to graduate. The MCAS, officially called the Massachusetts ...

I urge people to vote YES on Question 2, to eliminate MCAS as a graduation requirement. Only eight states continue to require passing a state test for graduation. Even New York state's longstanding ...

Aug. 29—Just as students begin a new school year that promises to be uninterrupted by pandemic-related disruptions, the state board of education throws incoming freshmen and the classes that will ...