HOUSE DOCKET, NO. 3723        FILED ON: 1/14/2009

HOUSE  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  No. 519

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts

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In the Year Two Thousand Nine

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An Act to eliminate the use of the mcas for high school graduation..

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 2000 Official Edition, is hereby amended by adding 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.