Lee Public Schools is struggling when it comes to early literacy and middle grade math, MCAS testing results show, though the ...

A smaller percentage of Massachusetts schools made significant progress towards, met, or exceeded their own goals in 2025, state officials said Monday as they released “sobering” results from the ...

FALL RIVER — Fall River Public Schools will still implement the MCAS test this school year, even though a state ballot measure passed to eliminate MCAS as a graduation requirement. Because MCAS test ...

Massachusetts MCAS scores show modest gains in English, flat math performance and continued post-pandemic challenges, with 63 ...

Just a year after Massachusetts voters resoundingly overturned using the 10th grade MCAS exam as a graduation requirement, ...

Experts say it’s more than just the interruption in education: Students are missing much more school than they used to, and ...

LOWELL — The Department of Elementary and Secondary Education released the 2025 Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System results during a presentation Monday morning. Overall, Lowell Public ...

Chronic absenteeism at the high school level and math achievement in grades 3 through 8 remain areas of concern for ...

FALL RIVER — The city has 108 new high school graduates. Superintendent Tracy Curley told the School Committee during its April 29 meeting that those 108 people were students between 2003 and 2024, ...

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 ...

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 ...