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State education officials contend that MCAS is essential to ensuring that school districts are held accountable under the Education Reform Act of 1993, which doubled state funding of public schools...
...This was part of a deal," said Alison Franklin '90, an aid to Senate President Thomas F. Birmingham '72, who has been one of the strongest champions of education reform...
Proponents of MCAS say education reform has spurred important changes in curriculum, like a new focus on writing and analytical thinking...
Along with MCAS, the Education Reform Act created standardized curriculum guidelines. Now, school districts are scrambling to update their curriculum...
...thrilled with this," said Jacqueline Dee King, a Cambridge parent who supports the state-wide Coalition for Authentic Reform in Education, a group that opposes MCAS...