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...statewide Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System (MCAS) tests were implemented last May. Students in the fourth, eighth and 10th grades are given open-ended questions to test their knowledge of English, science and math...
...opponents say the MCAS has the same narrow focus as the teacher tests...
Only after Harvard learned that Ms. Sing planned to take legal action with the Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination (MCAS), did a four-page, single spaced memorandum appear detailing alleged poor work performance. While the MCAD's investigation proceeded, a staff meeting was called at the Loeb Library to forbid discussion on the part of the staff and employees with anyone outside the University...
Although most MCAs no longer receive federal funds, HUD renewed the grant of the Cambridge MCA for 1974 on the basis of its successful record. These funds, however, total only $303,00, just twenty per cent of HUD's grants in each of the first five years...