He also announced yesterday that fact-finding teams would begin examining four schools in the state that the state Department of Education had identified as "underperforming."
Within a month, Driscoll said, the department will compare 1999 and 2000 scores to 1998 scores for every school in the state and rate each school as meeting or failing to meet improvement guidelines set by the state.
The release of the scores came three weeks after the Massachusetts Association of School Committees criticized MCAS as "seriously flawed" and called for the state to hold off on using the test as a graduation standard.
And on Election Day two weeks ago, voters in Cambridge passed a non-binding referendum opposing the standardized test.
--Staff writer Andrew S. Holbrook can be reached at holbr@fas.harvard.edu.