Neal J. Riley is a digital producer for CBS Boston. He has been with WBZ-TV since 2014. His work has appeared in The Boston Globe and The San Francisco Chronicle. Neal is a graduate of Boston ...

With every teachers’ union pushing for the passage of Question 2 on the November ballot, the recent release of a study reviewing the pros and cons of that proposition sheds light on what dismantling ...

The Massachusetts Teacher’s Association (MTA) is continuing to fight for the removal of MCAS as a high school graduation requirement. Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System exams, or MCAS, are ...

Voters shall have the opportunity to make Massachusetts’ educational system more just for all students. By voting YES on Question 2, we can eliminate the narrowed curricula created by the ...

FALL RIVER — The School Committee took a stand on Monday night against the use of the MCAS standardized test as a high school graduation requirement. Representatives from the Fall River Educators ...

For the first time in two decades, Massachusetts sophomores took the MCAS without needing it to graduate. The result: they did much worse than last year, and some state officials and others believe ...

When Ricardo Rosa isn't teaching educational leadership and policy studies at UMass Dartmouth, he's instructing parents on how to opt their children out of the Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment ...

WATCH: Keeping the graduation requirement is on the ballot in November. Associate editor and columnist Adrian Walker makes the case for it to stay. (undefined) With a $250,000 ad buy earlier this week ...

High school students would take end-of-course tests designed, administered and scored by the state under new graduation requirements recommended by a state council and cheered by Gov. Maura Healey as ...

A smaller percentage of Massachusetts schools made significant progress towards, met, or exceeded their own goals in 2025, state officials said Monday as they released “sobering” results from the ...