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Boston Herald
Boston Herald
6 Sep 2023
Chris Van Buskirk


NextImg:Questions on MCAS repeal, rent control clear hurdle for ballot

Attorney General Andrea Campbell gave the green light to two ballot questions nixing the MCAS as a graduating requirement for students and peeling back Massachusetts’ ban on rent control.

Wednesday’s certification of the questions represents the first major hurdle supporters had to clear to land the issues on the ballot. The AG reviewed the questions to determine if their language met constitutional muster. Supporters who want to pursue their proposals must now collect more than 75,000 signatures in roughly three months to place the issues before voters in the fall of 2024.

The rent control question, backed by state Rep. Mike Connolly, a Cambridge Democrat, would reverse a voter-approved 1994 statewide ban on rent control.

The proposed law would allow municipalities to regulate residential evictions, rents and fees, brokers fees, and the removal of of housing units from the rental market.

Connolly collected the legal paperwork from the Attorney General’s office around 11 a.m. Wednesday. He then took to the steps of the State House to celebrate the win.

The MCAS question is backed by the state’s powerful teacher union and would replace the MCAS graduation requirement with “locally developed alternatives for certifying academic mastery.”

A question allowing State Auditor Diana DiZoglio to audit the Legislature was also certified by Campbell as were multiple versions of a proposed law touching on the classification app-based rideshare and delivery drivers.

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