![After Massachusetts voted to remove the MCAS graduation requirement, policy makers are reshaping graduation standards. "The top-line understanding is that we’ve moved away from a system that we’ve known for about 24 years, which is one where every school district in Massachusetts had wide latitude to decide what their graduation requirements were in terms of coursework or other experiences, but every single student, in order to earn a diploma, needed to pass the MCAS in one English, one math and one science assessment," Massachusetts Secretary of Education Patrick Tutwiler said. "We’ve moved away from that now, by virtue of the outcome of [the MCAS] ballot question in November, to a place where communities can still decide what their graduation requirements are, but there’s no requirement for students to pass the MCAS.”](https://waylandstudentpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/img_3067_720.png)
![Troy Hoyt finishes the Boston Marathon, running for the Hoyt Foundation. T. Hoyt is the son of Hoyt Foundation CEO Russ Hoyt.
“[Running a marathon] might seem like a big thing, when it’s presented to you at first, but if you break it up and just keep telling yourself, “Yes, you can,” you can start chipping away at it. And before you know it, you’ll be running the whole 26 miles, and you won’t even think twice about it.” T. Hoyt said.](https://waylandstudentpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/C36E8761-1CBB-452E-9DF2-543EF7B1095E_1_105_c.jpeg)
What’s changed: comparing buildings throughout time (33 photos)
October 22, 2019
This photograph, circa 1884-1930, shows the Old Town Hall, located at 12 Cochituate Road. It was built in 1878 to serve as the new town hall and was demolished in 1957 and is also the current site of the Grout Heard House. George K. Lewis described the building in his book 'Growing Up in Wayland': "Occasionally, movies were shown on Saturdays at the old Wayland Town Hall, a huge Victorian structure of wood, that stood where the Grout-Heard House does today. The Town Hall had a very large meeting room on the second floor, provided especially for town meetings, but also used for Wayland Garden Club flower shows and a local badminton group."
