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Following state changes, Tewksbury superintendent recommends removing MCAS from Class of 2025 graduation policy
Summary
With statewide changes to the competency-determination law, district leaders recommended the school committee remove MCAS as the competency-determination requirement for the Class of 2025 and send the matter to the policy subcommittee for final wording.
Superintendent Terri O’Regan told the committee that recent changes to the state competency-determination law (voter action referenced in the meeting) mean MCAS can no longer be used as the competency-determination mechanism for students and that the district should remove MCAS from local graduation policy for the current graduating class.
O’Regan said the state Department of Elementary and…
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