A new coalition called The Voices For Academic Equity, which includes influential groups including Teach for America Massachusetts, announced a campaign to continue backing the state's standardized test with a new report, saying its benefits far outweigh possible flaws. This follows recent calls to eliminate the MCAS.
BOSTON Going into a week where students across Massachusetts will sit for state-required standardized tests, a newly formed coalition of education organizations will step into the arena and throw its support behind the controversial exams against a.
While the City Council was bickering yet again over the redrawing of political boundaries, an aide to Mayor Wu was busy launching his campaign for one of the four at-large slots. Henry Santana, a Dorchester resident who grew up in public housing in Mission Hill after immigrating from the Dominican Republic, has served as Wu’s director of civic organizing since April 2022.
In the two competing draft plans for achieving that improvement, the state itself is cast in very different roles. Riley's draft imagines the state primarily as overseer and enforcer, while Boston Mayor Michelle Wu asks for partnership and support.