Massachusetts House Speaker Ron Mariano linked the Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System test and educational standards on Wednesday.
Mariano (D-Quincy), a former teacher, told reporters outside his office at the State House on Wednesday, January 3 that has "never been a big MCAS reformer," according to State House News Service.
Race-based opposition was a factor in the forced resignation of Harvard president Claudine Gay earlier this week, Boston Mayor Michelle Wu said Wednesday.
Wu seemed to acknowledge that Gay made mistakes in the way she handled the university's response to Hamas's invasion of Israel in October 2023, during her testimony before a U.S. House of Representatives committee December 5, and in the way she used uncited material in her academic work.
