Voices of the People

Click the links below to see letters to the editor, public testimony, and other communications by teachers, parents, students and concerned citizens from all corners of Massachusetts about the MCAS and its effect on education.

Voices from the Boston City Council's Education Committee Hearing on Bilingual Education, March 25, 2003

Ty dePass, a resident of Jamaica Plain
Gaston Institute: Exit Poll Results re: Vote on Question # 2 - Bilingual Education in Massachusetts

Voices from the Boston City Council's Education Committee Hearing on MCAS at Dudley Library in Roxbury on March 18, 2003.

Testimony of Steve Fernandez, Boston Teacher
Report by Jackie King, MassCARE Coordinator

Voices from the Legislative Forum on the MCAS, Gardner Auditorium, MA State House, Feb. 11, 2003

Testimony by Josh Kaufman, Student at Brookline High School

Letters to the Editor on MCAS from Winter-Spring of 2003

Letter to the Lowell Sun by Brad MacGowan, March 2003
Letter to the Boston Herald by Anne Wheelock, March 2003
Letter to the Worcester Telegram by Leslie J. Linson, March 2003
Op-Ed to the Hampshire Gazette by Ann Courtney, March 2003
Letter to the Boston Herald by Ann Haycox, March 2003
Letter to the Boston Globe by David Mirabella, February 2003
Letter to the Boston Globe by Lisa Guisbond, January 2003

Commentary from the Boston Globe by Noah Gopin, student,  August 4, 2002