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 ...

Unless the Legislature intervenes, new admissions rules for technical and vocational schools with waitlists will start in the fall.

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

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

The Massachusetts Board of Elementary and Secondary Education violated the Open Meeting Law in January when its chairperson invited a panel of speakers to discuss antisemitism in schools without ...

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 ...

A hot mic at a Massachusetts school board meeting accidentally picked up a board member calling a father advocating for his autistic son a “pain in the a–” following his impassioned speech.

Outgoing Chicago Public Schools chief Pedro Martinez was tapped to become the next commissioner of the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education after board members voted in ...

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 ...