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Boston to seek state funding for new building for merged Shaw, Taylor schools
Boston Public Schools plans to seek state funding for a new elementary school building in Southern Dorchester or Mattapan to house two merged elementary schools.
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MCAS scores for schools across the state
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Massachusetts students hit 19-year low on national reading, math exams
Massachusetts is no longer top of the class on national report card, falling behind Wyoming in fourth grade math and New Jersey in eighth grade reading.
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Nation’s Report Card spells out urgency for local, state leaders to address learning lossesReading and math scores fell district, state, and nationwide in the National Assessment of Educational Progress, made public Monday. State and district leaders said the scores reinforce the need to work quickly to catch students up.
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New MCAS data underscore missed learning of the pandemic. What if kids can’t catch up?With the MCAS reinforcing prior data indicating many students are more than half a school year behind, the state and districts risk moving too slowly to make up that time.
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Mass. vocational schools policy violates student civil rights, complaint saysThe complaint calls for the US Office of Civil Rights to withhold all federal funding for the state’s vocational programs until the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education prohibits criteria-based admissions.
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Black male teachers can make a big difference in the lives of their students — why are they so rare?Statewide, just 1 percent of public school teachers are Black men. Even in Boston, which has the highest number of Black male educators, the proportion is just 7 percent.
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