Berkshire Hills Regional Vocational School Committee

Boston Globe Story on Berkshire Hills Resolution

Cambridge School Committee

Cambridge Resolution

CARE Materials on Diploma Granting:

CARE Parents' Letter to the Cambridge School Committee

CARE Press Release: Cambridge Votes for MCAS-Free Diplomas

CARE Report to Members on Cambridge Vote

Cambridge Teachers' Petition

News Stories about Cambridge diploma vote

Boston Globe: Cambridge Votes to Defy State on MCAS

Letters/Op Ed pieces relating to diploma granting in Cambridge:

Op Ed piece in the Cambridge Chronicle by Jonathan King: School Committee, Don't Relinquish Your Right to Give Diplomas

Letter to the Editor about Cambridge Vote for MCAS free diplomas

 
Easthampton School Committee

News Story on Easthampton Resolution

Another News Story on Easthampton Resolution

Falmouth School Committee

Falmouth Resolution

Hampshire Regional School Committee

Hampshire Regional Resolution

News Stories about Easthampton diploma vote

District Takes MCAS Stand, Daily Gazette October 13, 2002

Associated Press story on the DOE respnse listed below

Letters/Op Ed pieces relating to diploma granting in Easthampton:

Response by David Driscoll, Commissioner of the Massachusetts Department of Education to Hampshire Regional School Committee

Newburyport School Committee

News Story on the Newburyport Resolution

Northampton School Committee

Northampton Resolution

Daily Hampshire Gazette Story on Northampton vote.

South Hadley School Committee
South Hadley's resolution is not a diploma granting resolution but it does make a strong call for a moratorium on use of MCAS for determining eligibility for a diploma.
 

News story on South Hadley's Resolution

Communities that have passed resolutions Reaffirming the right of School Committees to decide who is eligible for a diploma:

Brookline Public Schools

Brookline Resolution

News story on the Brookline School Committee's support for local control

Editorial from the Brookline Tab on May 29, 2002

Communities who have co-sponsored or supported Brookline's Resolution leading into the MASC Annual Convention (97 School Committees in total voted for the resolution at the convention):

1. Amherst-Pelham Regional School Committee
2. Arlington School Committee
3. Ashland School Committee
4. Montachusett Regional Vocational Technical School Committee
5. Northampton School Committee
6. Old Colony Regional Vocational Technical School Committee
7. Pathfinder Regional Vocational Technical School Committee
8. Sharon School Committee
9. Somerville School Committee
10. Swampscott School Committee
11. Wayland School Committee
12. Amesbury School Committee
13. Assabet Valley Regional Vocational School Committee
14. Bedford School Committee
15. Berlin School Committee
16. Boylston School Committee
17. Berlin-Boylston Regional School Committee
18. Cape Cod Regional Vocational Technical School Committee
19. Carlisle School Committee
20. Clinton School Committee           
21. Easton School Committee
22. Erving School Committee
23. Franklin County Regional Vocational/Technical School Committee
24. Frontier Valley Regional and Union #38 School Committee            
25. Greater Lowell Vocational School Committee
26. Holbrook School Committee
27. Hudson School Committee           
28. Leominister School Committee
29. Lincoln Sudbury School Committee
30. Melrose School Committee
31. Nantucket School Committee
32. Needham School Committee
33. New Bedford School Committee           
34. Newton School Committee           
35. Norfolk County Agricultural School Board of Trustees
36. Norwood School Committee
37. Saugus School Committee           
38. Southeastern Regional Vocational School Committee
39. Shawsheen Valley School Committee
40. South Middlesex Regional Vocational School Committee
41. Springfield School Committee
42. Tri-County Regional Vocational School Committee
43. Truro School Committee          
44. Wakefield School Committee           
45. Ware School Committee
46. Wareham School Committee           
47. Winchendon School Committee