Massachusetts voters: YES on 2.

Matthew Miller

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.

The MCAS, Dropouts and Tortured Logic | Citizens for Public Schools

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Farce Majeure

@mattdm also 4) graduation requirements that only apply to public schools are nothing but class warfare.

Matthew Miller

@vathpela

Geez, I didn't even know that. (I haven't paid much attention to private schools, rbh). Bur, wow, yeah.