The second year of "Keep the Promise" Research--an in-depth, three-year study of academic remediation programs in Massachusetts' three largest school districts--is producing an array of evidence demonstrating the severely negative impact of the Commonwealth's 80% cut in MCAS remediation funding in the F'04 budget. This report--a mid-year, interim publication from the second year of Keep the Promise research--puts specific numbers on the impact of the cuts in Worcester, Springfield, and Boston and describes the qualitative decline of academic support programs as well. The inescapable conclusion is that Massachusetts has taken a significant--but reparable--step backwards in its effort to keep its promises to all of the students served by its public schools. (Contains 1 figure and 3 tables.) [Additional funding for this research was provided by the State Street Corporation, and John Hancock.]