Vocational schools will now use a lottery system for admissions across Massachusetts, following a state Board of Elementary and Secondary Education vote altering the long-controversial admissions ...

The state's in-demand vocational schools will most likely turn to a lottery admissions system, and the MCAS will still be in ...

The Board of Elementary and Secondary Education voted 8-2 May 20 to advance new regulations from Gov. Maura T. Healey's ...

BOSTON - The Massachusetts Board of Education is now considering whether to ban or restrict the use of electronic devices, like cell phones, in school. There are already schools in the state that ...

BOSTON - The Massachusetts Board of Elementary and Secondary Education voted Monday to raise MCAS scores required for high school graduation. The changes would start with the class of 2026 ...

The state's education board agreed to a new temporary new graduation requirement starting with the class of 2026 now that the MCAS exam is out.

Past chairs of the Massachusetts Board of Elementary and Secondary Education weigh in on what the state needs to do to make good on its commitment to equity in education. On the 30th anniversary ...

BOSTON (SHNS) – The Massachusetts Board of Education could advance draft regulations Tuesday in response to a voter-approved law that removed the requirement that students to pass the MCAS exam ...

Vice Chair of the NAEP Governing Board and a member of the Massachusetts State Board of Education. “We made progress in closing this gap until around 2010, but it’s been steadily widening ...

The Massachusetts Board of Education approved doubling the amount of state-funded financial aid for public colleges and universities as part of a set of proposed reforms to the public higher ...

BOSTON — The state education board advanced regulations Tuesday to further restrict controversial "timeout" and seclusion policies in schools, the next step in a yearslong effort to reduce the use of ...