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Burlington High School previews Program of Studies as district weighs local replacement for MCAS graduation requirement
Summary
Burlington High School Principal Mark Sullivan and Director of Counseling Joe Adebato outlined new course offerings and previewed draft approaches for a locally determined competency determination after the state removed the MCAS diploma requirement.
Burlington High School Principal Mark Sullivan and Director of Counseling Joe Adebato presented the school’s 2025-26 Program of Studies and outlined next steps after the state removed the MCAS requirement for a diploma.
The presentation summarized new and revised course offerings — including AP African American Studies, an AP cybersecurity pilot (potential), art-and-wellness, hip-hop music theory, retail management/project-based learning, gender studies and a newly approved AP computer science course that the College Board has not yet finalized — and changes to dual-enrollment language and course-level descriptors.
Why it matters: the state’s change to the MCAS graduation…
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