The K-12 Statewide Graduation Council released its interim report with new graduation requirement recommendations following voters’ overturn of the MCAS standard last year — including controversial state-run end-of-course exams.
“No other state will have implemented such a comprehensive approach to setting such high standards in education, and it does this without relying on high stakes testing,” the Healey-Driscoll administration said in a release Monday. “No single test will represent a barrier to graduation for any student, and the 10th Grade MCAS exam would be phased out as part of this new framework.”
The framework released Monday is a “first step” towards a final set of requirements for high school graduation in Massachusetts, state education officials said. The announcement comes

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