Word: mcas
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...Massachusetts Department of Education voted yesterday to increase the passing score of the Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System (MCAS) examination to 240, raising the bar for graduation and mandating that students be “proficient” before receiving their diploma...
...changes come one month after the high school class of 2008 boasted average scores on the MCAS examination that outperformed all previous 10th graders on the test...
...high school’s MCAS Tutoring Center Director Gail Stein said the addition of the proficiency plans would not, however, place additional burdens on the school because of the academic support that is already in place...
...would say that with the success that we’ve had in the last couple of years on the MCAS test, particularly on the 10th grade level, that our students will be up to the challenge,” he said...
...accept a job offer as an assistant superintendent in Harrisburg, Pa.During Knight’s four-year tenure, the high school encountered serious educational hurdles. It was placed on probation by the New England Association of Schools and Colleges and its scores on the Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System (MCAS) standardized tests lagged behind similar schools. Knight came to the school in 2002 after the then-acting principal, Paula M. Evans, resigned amidst a controversial restructuring plan. Local elementary school principal Len Solo served as interim chief immediately following Evans’s resignation. In a letter written shortly after...