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...seems to be really compressed and crunched,” said CPS Coordinator for K-12 Visual and Performing Arts Judith Contrucci. “There are so many demands.” According to Contrucci, some of these demands include preparing children for the Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System (MCAS) tests in light of the No Child Left Behind Act signed by President Bush in 2002. CityStep members said that they have stepped up the academic component of the dance program this year. “We definitely want CityStep to respond to the needs of Cambridge Public Schools children...
...schools complicated discussions over the school budget at a meeting last night between school officials and parents. The plan calls for a hybrid middle school, which would move middle school students from the Tobin School to the Peabody School. The Tobin School suffers from low Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System (MCAS) scores, whereas the Peabody School suffers from declining enrollment, according to Cambridge Public Schools Superintendent Thomas Fowler-Finn. Under this plan, the Tobin School would continue only as a K-5 elementary school. Fowler-Finn said that allocating part of the $125 million district budget to the new hybrid middle...
...between test scores of white and minority students, which usually falls along class lines—affects CRLS and has proved difficult to fix. Only 25 percent of low-income students at CRLS scored at either the advanced or proficient level on the 10th grade Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System (MCAS) English exam last school year. Twenty-eight percent scored at advanced or proficient levels on the Mathematics exam.“If you look at our city, it’s broken up into different classes,” said Krishana House, a CRLS senior. “We have...
...disparities. “We need some ways to get people’s attention and to cultivate a sense of urgency about addressing achievement gaps,” he said. Cambridge scored 253rd out of 278 districts statewide on the 2005 Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System (MCAS) 10th grade English exam. It scored just slightly better—251st—on the MCAS 10th grade math exam. —Staff writer Laura A. Moore can be reached at lamoore@fas.harvard.edu...
...There’s a lot of fear going around this high school,” said a student member of the School Committee, James Conway, referring to the distress surrounding MCAS scores. “People are really trying their hardest to pass this test and succeed, and they should be commended,” Conway said...