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Driscoll against raising MCAS bar

Says thousands wouldn't graduate

By Tracy Jan
Globe Staff / February 16, 2005

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Despite pressures from business leaders to set higher standards, state Education Commissioner David P. Driscoll expressed reluctance yesterday to raise the MCAS score that high school students need to graduate, saying that such a move could result in thousands of special-education students failing. (Full article: 485 words)

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