Milton is one of 176 school districts in the Commonwealth that will be administering the PARCC (Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers) standardized test rather than MCAS. There are 121 districts that will stay with the MCAS. You can find complete lists of which districts have chosen a particular testing method in a Globe story here. There is a related story in Wicked Local Dedham: “Still working out flaws in potential MCAS replacement“