By Mr. Swan of Springfield, petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 580) of Benjamin Swan and others relative to repealing the testing requirements for graduation under the Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System.  Education.

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts

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PETITION OF:

Benjamin Swan

Gloria L. Fox

Stephen L. DiNatale

Tom Sannicandro

Carl M. Sciortino, Jr.

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In the Year Two Thousand and Seven.

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An Act to eliminate the use of the mcas for high school graduation.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:

SECTION 1. Section 1D of chapter 69 of the General Laws, as appearing in the 2000 Official Edition, is hereby amended by adding after the word “graduation” in line 59 the following words: —
; provided however, that the MCAS test, so called, or other state-developed, standardized test, shall not be a component of the competency determination.