BOSTON (SHNS) – About 700 students every year leave high school without a diploma, who otherwise would have received one because they failed to pass Massachusetts’ required standardized test.
Of approximately 70,000 students in each graduating class, 96 percent meet the state’s “competency determination” associated with the Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System (MCAS), a standardized test that 10th graders are required to pass to get their diploma, according to data compiled by Board of Elementary and Secondary Education Vice-Chair Matt Hills, who presented his findings at the board’s meeting on Tuesday.
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