HOUSE DOCKET, NO. 2406        FILED ON: 1/14/2009

HOUSE  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  No. 490

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts

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In the Year Two Thousand Nine

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An Act Eliminating the use of MCAS as a high school graduation requirement..

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:
 

SECTION 1. Section 1D of chapter 69 of the General Laws, as appearing in the 2002 Official Edition, is hereby amended by inserting after the word “graduation” ,in line 59, the following words:—; provided, however, that the MCAS test, so-called, or other state-developed, standardized test, shall not be a component of the competency determination.