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Westborough outlines new competency determination policy after state decouples MCAS from graduation
Summary
District leaders presented a draft competency determination and graduation policy to comply with state guidance after a ballot initiative removed MCAS as an automatic graduation requirement; the committee will vote on a local policy and submit it to DESE by the end of the year.
Westborough school officials presented a proposed local competency determination and revised graduation policy after the state required districts to define how tenth‑grade academic standards will be certified now that the MCAS test is no longer an automatic graduation requirement.
District presenters told the School Committee the change follows a statewide ballot initiative that decoupled passing MCAS in grade 10 from receiving a high school diploma and that the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education (DESE) issued implementation…
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