Massachusetts started 2025 scrambling for a replacement to the voter-overturned MCAS graduation standard. A first look at a ...

Max Page, the head of the Massachusetts Teachers Association, lifts up a sign for his ballot question eliminating the MCAS test as a graduation requirement. (Photo by Gintautas Dumcius) Massachusetts ...

AMHERST, Mass. (WWLP) – UMass Amherst will not allow a student to carry the Tibetan flag during the official procession of Flag Bearers at UMass Commencement. Tibetan-American student, Kalsang Nangpa, ...

AMHERST — Change is a theme common enough at college commencements — a beginning and an end. But for the UMass Amherst class of 2025, change seemed more pressing and obvious when they received their ...

An award-winning creative director and designer who worked on Broadway hits such as “Hamilton” and “Dear Evan Hansen” is set to be the keynote speaker at UMass Amherst’s 2025 commencement. Originally ...

BOSTON (SHNS) – Massachusetts students will no longer have to pass the MCAS exam to earn a diploma in Massachusetts. Question 2, which advanced with a hard push by the Massachusetts Teachers ...

BOSTON (AP) — The governor of Massachusetts plans to convene a statewide graduation requirement council after voters in November decided to ditch the state’s standardized tests as a high school ...

Massachusetts is launching an online survey to expand public input on new, statewide graduation requirements, the Healey-Driscoll administration said Monday. "Information from the public survey and ...

On Election Day, Massachusetts voters passed the Question 2 ballot initiative, which removed the MCAS standardized test as a graduation requirement for public school students. People enter the Boston ...

The latest set of NCAA Graduation Success Rate data was released Wednesday. AMHERST, Mass. – University of Massachusetts Athletics posted its highest ever Graduation Success Rate in the latest NCAA ...