Lawsuit claims MCAS are unfair. {Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System}.Lawyers filed a lawsuit Sept. 19 claiming the MCAS McCune-Albright syndrome (MCAS) A genetic syndrome characterized in girls by the development of ovarian cysts and puberty before the age of 8, together with abnormalities of bone structure and skin pigmentation. Mentioned in: Ovarian Cysts assessment test discriminates against minorities, non-English speakers and the disabled and that Massachusetts failed to prepare students for the test, according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. a Boston Globe story. The plaintiffs include six unidentified Holyoke and Springfield area students, and their attorneys say their schools have failed to teach them material covered in the MCAS exam. In addition, lawyers claim that state education officials overstepped their authority when they required students to pass the math and English exams to get a diploma DIPLOMA. An instrument of writing, executed by, a corporation or society, certifying that a certain person therein named is entitled to a certain distinction therein mentioned. 2. . The lawyers asked a federal judge in U.S. District Court in Springfield, Mass., to issue an injunction to eliminate the test as a graduation Graduation is the action of receiving or conferring an academic degree or the associated ceremony. The date of event is often called degree day. The event itself is also called commencement, convocation or invocation. requirement for state students. www.doe.mass.edu/mcas |
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