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  • Resources and information on high-stakes testing
    • New Report by CPS & FairTest: Lessons Learned – Executive Summary
    • Life Under MCAS Blog
    • Whether raising standards or teaching to the test, MCAS graduation requirements are now higher
    • White Paper: MCAS is the Wrong Answer
      • Fact Sheet: MCAS is the Wrong Answer
      • Fact sheet in Spanish
      • Fact sheet in Portuguese
      • Fact sheet in Cape Verdean
      • MCAS is the Wrong Answer – Infographic
    • Get the Facts on Testing
    • Statement of the Association of Business Leaders for Education (ABLE) on High-Stakes Standardized Testing
      • List of signers to the Statement of the Association of Business Leaders for Education (ABLE) on High-Stakes Standardized Testing
    • Case for Moratorium on State Standardized Tests
    • Organizing a “Testing and Your Child” event
    • What Everyone Should Know About the Massachusetts’ High Stakes Testing Diploma Requirement
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    • High-Stakes Testing
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      • Boston Eyes “Unified Enrollment” System; What Happened in Other Cities?
      • CPS Statement on Boston District-Charter Compact
      • Boston Parents, Teachers and Students Speak Out
      • Boston School Committee Meeting Photo Gallery
      • Boston Schools Affected and Demographics of Schools
      • Previous Coverage of the Fight for Boston Public Schools
    • School Funding
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  • Charter Schools
    • New Bedford’s Alma del Mar Charter: The numbers behind the hype
    • Charter School Decision – November 2016 Ballot Question
    • Summaries of Bills Regarding Charter Schools and Accountability
    • As Charter School Classes Shrink, MCAS Scores Rise
    • Big Win on Question 2!
  • Opt Out of MCAS
    • Opting Out of State Standardized Tests
    • Sample Opt-Out Letter to Principals
    • Example of Opt Out Policy – Somerville
    • Organizing Opt-Out House Parties
  • Blog: Stories of Life Under MCAS
  • Blog: Boston Parents Schoolyard News
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CPS Resources

  • ACLU of Massachusetts
  • American Federation of Teachers Massachusetts
  • Cambridge CPS Facebook Page
  • Charles Hamilton Houston Institute
  • Commonwealth of Massachusetts Official Website
  • Darwin Bicentennial Project
  • Education Policy Alliance
  • FairTest
  • Mass English Plus Coalition
  • Mass Teachers Association
  • Massachusetts Advocates for Children
  • Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education
  • Massachusetts Legislature’s Website
  • Massachusetts Parent Teacher Association
  • METCO Program
  • S. House of Representatives
  • S. Senate
  • UCLA Civil Rights Project
  • Where Do I Vote? MA

SUPPORT CPS TODAY!

Your support means CPS can continue fighting for public schools by
* advocating for fully funding the Student Opportunity Act, and by advocating for increased state support for our public colleges; and, to support increasing state revenues to ensure school funding.
* organizing to press state policy makers to cancel the high-stakes MCAS and shift to better forms of assessment.
* and educating policy makers and the public about the very real threat of charter schools, vouchers, tax credits and other privatization schemes.

Please note:
Our new address is PO Box 470823
Brookline, MA 02447.

lisa@citizensforpublicschools.org
CPS is a 501c3 and does not endorse candidates for political office.

Watch this video, created for our Anniversary Gala, on CPS's more than 40 years of fighting for education justice. (Edited by Megan Kipper.)

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  • Calendar of Events
    • April 13, More Teaching, Less Testing Virtual National Conference
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Latest CPS News

  • MA voted to eliminate the MCAS grad test. It’s time to decide what comes next. April 4, 2025
  • Check out CPS’s updated fact sheet on opting out of MCAS March 24, 2025
  • Vocational Education Justice Coalition Voices Deep Concerns with Proposed Admissions Regs February 20, 2025
  • After Question 2, let’s forge a path forward that will do justice to our talented students and educators January 29, 2025
  • Register Now for the Final Session of CPS’s Three-Part Series on Multilingual Education in Massachusetts: “Building the Bilingual Educator Pipeline,” on Jan. 15 by Zoom January 6, 2025

Contact CPS

Lisa Guisbond
Executive Director
Phone: 617.227.3000, ext. 17
NEW ADDRESS PO Box 470823
Brookline, MA 02447
Send a message: lisa@citizensforpublicschools.org

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