The state education board is advancing a replacement for MCAS standardized testing requirements mandating students complete certain courses before graduation – but also elected to consider adding an option to take MCAS as an alternative.
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Massachusetts education test scores back to top in the nation, but still behind pre-pandemic
Massachusetts’s students are back to being the top in the U.S. for all categories in a test known as the “Nation’s Report Card” — but still remain well behind the state’s pre-pandemic scores.
North Middlesex Regional School District to close two schools following failed Prop 2.5 overrides
TOWNSEND — Two elementary schools in the North Middlesex Regional School District will likely be closed after the end of the current school year with district officials citing a lack of state financial support.
Kennedy, Miller vie for 1st Middlesex Senate District seat
LOWELL — Incumbent Democratic state Sen. Ed Kennedy is facing Republican challenger Karla Miller in the race for the 1st Middlesex District seat, which serves the five communities of Lowell, Dracut, Dunstable, Pepperell and Tyngsboro.
Massachusetts police charge high school students with making bomb threat against school: ‘Significant legal consequences’
Massachusetts police charge high school students with making bomb threat against school: ‘Significant legal consequences’
Reingold students create greeting cards and smiles
FITCHBURG — Several students, with community volunteers from Reingold Elementary School celebrated their United Way Youth Venture Project with a special visit to the Gables in Fitchburg recently. Their project, which involved 660 students, from first through fifth grades created more than 700 greeting cards according to Lauren Mountain, Director of United Way Youth Venture. […]
