Re: Private School Circumvents State Graduation Test

["Susan Allison" <sueallison@comcast.net>]

This story about the Maine school issuing diplomas to FCAT victims reminded
me of another story from Massachusetts...

"Several New England colleges and universities that require high school
diplomas for admission say they may accept students who fail MCAS but
receive ''local diplomas'' that state education officials have declared
illegal.

The prospect that some four-year colleges may consider a non-MCAS diploma to
be as good as one with MCAS credentials could undermine a central tenet of
education reform.

'They are doing a disservice to the goals of education reform and to the
principles many of them claim to hold dear,' said James A. Peyser, chairman
of the state Board of Education, adding that he doubts the move would have
broad impact."

Source:  Mass. irked by colleges' willingness to accept non-MCAS diplomas,
The Boston Globe, by Michele Kurtz, December 23, 2002.

You simply must go to my site and look at the cartoon related to this story
that I posted on our site with the permission of the cartoonist Kevin
Keene -  http://www.geocities.com/stophsa/Peyser.html

Looks like a not-so-underground railroad is emerging to deliver us from the
oppression and injustice of high stakes testing!