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    • Hearing Summary: Standardized Testing
  • Join the campaign for an MCAS moratorium
    • Whether raising standards or teaching to the test, MCAS graduation requirements are now higher
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    • Charter School Decision – November 2016 Ballot Question
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    • As Charter School Classes Shrink, MCAS Scores Rise
    • Big Win on Question 2!
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    • Opting Out of State Standardized Tests
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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: CPS is a 501c3 and does not endorse candidates for political office.

Watch this video created by Board Member Louis Kruger on CPS's legacy of fighting for fair school funding.

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Latest CPS News

  • Making the Invisible Visible: Asian Americans in Public Education January 9, 2023
  • CPS’s 2022 Annual Meeting Honors Education Justice Campaigns & Jean McGuire December 14, 2022
  • Join us for CPS’s Annual Meeting, Tuesday, Dec. 13, 7pm, by Zoom November 16, 2022
  • Learn Why to Vote Yes on 1 & How You Can Help September 19, 2022
  • Raising the MCAS Graduation Requirements Risks Widening Graduation Gaps July 19, 2022

Contact CPS

Lisa Guisbond
Executive Director
Phone: 617.227.3000, ext. 17
NEW ADDRESS 11 Beacon St., Suite 722
Boston, MA 02108
Send a message: lisa@citizensforpublicschools.org

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