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...ensure basic educational skills across the state, both for individual students and within every school. State officials analyze the results of the tests to determine the amount of money schools receive through Academic Support Services grants earmarked for improving basic skills and shoring up student performance on future MCAS tests...
While the Board of Education, Commissioner of Education David P. Driscoll and Governor A. Paul Cellucci all support the test, some teachers and principals have voiced concerns over the MCAS, questioning everything from the test's importance to its administration...
Roger O'Sullivan, president of the Cambridge Teachers Association, a local teachers' union, said that while schools should have some form of standardized testing, MCAS results should not be the sole determinant of aid to schools...
...Sullivan also says one of the newest and most controversial measures of the test is problematic: the requirement of having to pass the MCAS to graduate, which will first apply to the class...
...Linda Neri, communications manager for the Massachusetts Coalition for Higher Standards, a public-interest group specializing in the issue of the MCAS, points to a piece of information she says many worried parents and teachers may not know: students who do not pass the test in the 10th grade can retake the test in the 11th and 12th grades...