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The Massachusetts Teachers Association’s misleading anti-MCAS effort Lawmakers need to deliver a clear “no” to union efforts to end the graduation exam. By The Editorial BoardUpdated May 2, 2021, 4:00 a.m. Email to a Friend Globe staff illustration; Radila/Adobe Without a consistent way to measure student performance in Massachusetts, it’s easy to predict what would occur. Thriving suburban districts would keep thriving. But with no uniform standard for identifying student weaknesses, some kids in underperforming schools would be left without the knowledge and skills they need to succeed at work or college. Yet, watching the maneuvers of the Massachusetts Teachers Association during the COVID-19 pandemic, one could easily come to the conclusion that the state’s largest union is more concerned with getting the MCAS graduation exam — the state’s main tool for assessing schools’ performance — out of their classrooms than students back i

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