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...year ago this month, the Cambridge School Committee voted not to punish teachers who oppose MCAS or students who boycott the test...
Last spring, Jukovsky helped orchestrate a boycott of about 100 sophomores. When district MCAS scores came out last month, they showed a precipitous decline for CRLS. Cambridge school officials have attributed much of the plunge to the high proportion of boycotters in the 500-member tenth grade class...
...says the boycott, which was larger in Cambridge than any city in the state, helped to focus public attention on MCAS. The boycott showed that students care about the disproportionate rate of MCAS failure for minority and low-income students, she says...
When three eighth-graders suggested they might boycott the test, Coady called the students and their parents into his office...
Since the death of Houphouet in 1993, however, Cote d'Ivoire has undergone accelerating political and economic instability. Henri Konan Bedie, then president of the National Assembly, succeeded Houphouet and continued his predecessor's autocratic ruling style; winning election in 1995 following an opposition party boycott and a period of intense violence and unrest. Turmoil rose within the army due to unpaid salaries and poor living conditions, and student riots were brutally crushed by the Bedie regime...