Massachusetts voters: YES on 2.
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Massachusetts voters: YES on 2. I care about the first point here, but second makes it the clear choice. Even 1.7× would be concerning!
(1) the graduation requirement has caused some historically underserved students to drop out; (2) students who failed the 10th grade MCAS were 17 times more likely to drop out than their peers who passed the exams; and (3) the dropout rate for students failing the MCAS has increased from 15 percent in 2015 to 18 percent in 2019.
https://www.citizensforpublicschools.org/the-mcas-dropouts-and-tortured-logic/
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@mattdm also 4) graduation requirements that only apply to public schools are nothing but class warfare.
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Geez, I didn't even know that. (I haven't paid much attention to private schools, rbh). Bur, wow, yeah.
