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With the battery of standardized tests called MCAS, the Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System, coming up later this term, Superintendent of Schools Bobbie J. D'Alessandro urged parents to have their students take the test but acknowledged it was "difficult on children...
...have said we will not punish parents" who refuse to let their children take the MCAS, D'Alessandro said. "That is unpopular in the state because we've been asked to do something more critical of parents...
...Alessandro said she expects more parents to refuse this year than last and is concerned about state policy that counts students who didn't take the MCAS as having failed the test...
...Alessandro said she believes the changes in curriculum will improve test scores at the merged school. Fletcher and Maynard students generally score below district averages on the Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System (MCAS), the Commonwealth's battery of standardized tests...
...says the MCAS means the district will have to make some changes as well. Though Cambridge schools have become quite independent, there should be a core curriculum, she says...