Citizens for Public Schools, in cooperation with other education organizations, is organizing a series of six public forums across the state where parents, teachers, students, and other people concerned with our public schools can come together to discuss three fundamental questions:
1. What should students know and be able to do by the time they graduate from high school?
2. How should students demonstrate their readiness to graduate?
3. What should high school look like to prepare students for your recommended graduation requirements?
Our third forum will be in Worcester at the YWCA at on Monday, September 22, at 6pm (rescheduled from Wednesday, June 11). Register here and read and/or download the flyer here.
The first forum was on Wednesday, April 30 at 6pm at Cambridge Rindge and Latin School. Read about it here. The next forum was in New Bedford on Saturday, May 24.
The meetings follow on the approval of Question 2 last November when Massachusetts voters decisively rejected the one-size-fits-all MCAS graduation requirement, 59 to 41 percent. → Read More