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Massachusetts

Ed board urged to take time before deciding student assessment course

MALDEN, MASS. — On the eve of a potentially critical vote, educators, parents and elected officials pressed the Board of Elementary and Secondary Education on Monday to continue the conversation over student testing in a months-long debate, saying there's more to be considered. The board is on Tuesday is

Massachusetts

Students push in-state tuition for undocumented immigrants

BOSTON – With legislation that would give undocumented immigrants in-state tuition rates approaching its tenth month in committee, members of a student group supporting the move piled into Rep. Tom Sannicandro's office Thursday, calling on the co-chair of the Joint Committee on Higher Education to schedule the bill for

Massachusetts

MCAS 2.0 called for by Bay State ed chief Chester

BOSTON – A "next-generation MCAS" is the route Massachusetts should take in choosing its new standardized student assessment program, Elementary and Secondary Education Commissioner Mitchell Chester announced Tuesday. The new test would include items from both the MCAS and PARCC exams, along with questions specifically developed for Massachusetts, according

Yale

Union push gains steam among Yale, Harvard grad students

NEW HAVEN, Conn. (AP) — Efforts to unionize graduate students at private universities are gaining momentum as the National Labor Relations Board shows new openness to arguments that they are not just students, but also school employees. A union for teaching assistants is in place at only one private U.S.

Massachusetts

Teachers’ unions ask lawmakers to leave charter caps to voters

BOSTON – Some of the state's largest teachers' unions, allied with community groups that back their opposition to increasing the number of charter schools in Massachusetts, have asked lawmakers to set aside pending compromise measures and let the fight be decided at the ballot box next year. Should

MCAS

Reform based on pre-2011 MCAS draws support from Pioneer Institute

BOSTON – As Massachusetts education officials gear up to decide next month whether to adopt the national PARCC exam to assess academic achievement, the Boston-based Pioneer Institute on Tuesday released a study critical of PARCC that suggests creating a new set of state examinations based on the original MCAS exam. The

Massachusetts

Bay State reformers backed MCAS over PARCC, think tank says

BOSTON – Debate over standardized testing in Massachusetts schools heated up Wednesday as the Pioneer Institute, an independent policy research organization, rebutted an argument backing adoption of a multi-state assessment system by pointing to the positions taken by two education reformers who helped to create the MCAS exam. Former Massachusetts Republican

Massachusetts

Mass. K-12 budgets squeezed by insurance, SPED costs

STATE HOUSE — High costs for employee health insurance and special education have reduced the resources school districts can invest in other areas, including extended learning time, books, technology, arts, and counseling, according to a report released Monday by a commission charged with evaluating the state's school finance law.