The New York State Education Department is proposing that Regents exams no longer be required for high school graduation, although school districts would still be free to give them to students. In a ...

A former educator and City Council member from Brooklyn wants to do away with the statewide high school Regents exams, demanding alternatives he says will better measure student success. Councilmember ...

For years, school superintendents lobbied for an end to mandatory Regents exams. But after the state Board of Regents announced Monday that it intends to make the state tests optional, the future ...

ALBANY — Regents exams, a scholastic staple for more than a century, would remain in place but with reduced status, under a state advisory commission's recommendations released Monday. The "blue ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — New York state may make changes to graduation requirements for high school students to receive their diploma — which would also do away with the mandate that students take ...

A majority of New York school professionals and others surveyed by the state favor altering the use of Regents exams or eliminating them entirely, according to a report released Monday by education ...

The members of New York's Board of Regents are considering whether to discontinue the exams that bear their name, resuming a discussion about the future of the tests that they started in 2019.

High school students in New York need to pass at least four standardized tests in order to graduate. They’re called Regents exams and they’ve been around for more than 100 years. But their future is ...