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...Cambridge School Committee defied the Massachusetts Department of Education (DOE) last night by eliminating the Massachusetts Comprehension Assessment System (MCAS) test as a high school graduation requirement, making it the second town to defy DOE-mandated high-stakes testing...
...resolution passed by a four-to-three vote before a cheering crowd of parents and teachers. The three dissenters, including Mayor Michael A. Sullivan, said they fear reprisals from the DOE, which ruled several years ago that even students who fulfill all other high school requirements will not be granted diplomas if they fail to pass the standardized test...
...When you have a big wide chasm and you take a baby step, you fall in,” Turkel said. “I would prefer that the DOE came in and fired the School Committee and our superintendant and shut down our schools...
Ably portrayed by then 13-year-old Matthew O’Leary, his young Fenton is a refreshing answer to the saccharine, doe-eyed countenance of Haley Joel Osment’s innocent personas. Like Osment’s character in The Sixth Sense, Fenton is the subject of a supernatural affliction, but O’Leary’s response is hardened, stoic and fairly riveting for its intensity. After Fenton’s father tells of his divine task, Fenton responds with understandable skepticism that eventually decays into abject panic and hardened frustration as the body count mounts...
...Jeanne Cleary Act, both of which require that schools participating in federal student aid programs report statistics on murders, forcible rapes and aggravated assaults that show evidence of prejudice, as defined in the Hate Crimes Statistics Act of 1990. The report also urges the DOE to be more aggressive in monitoring hate crimes on campus. A system should be created to reward schools that actively participate in the reporting process and to punish those that...