Citizens for Public Schools calls on Legislators to cancel MCAS testing

[caption id="attachment_1741" align="alignleft" width="2048"] Testing Times Ahead by Pete (2009) in the Public Domain[/caption] On February 17th Citizens for Public Schools published the following letter to Massachusetts legislators calling for a waiver from the U.S. Department of Education in order to cancel this year’s MCAS tests.   Dear Senators and Representatives, In light of the coronavirus (COVID-19) and its impact on our schools and students, we, the undersigned groups representing parents, educators, students and advocates for education justice, call on Massachusetts officials to seek and obtain a testing waiver from the U.S. Department of Education and cancel this year’s MCAS...