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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

ALBANY, N.Y.-- Regents exams are intended to show proficiency in English, math, science and other skills, but leaders of the New York State Department of Education say it's time to rethink them. New ...

Nearly 150 school districts in New York state saw at least 90% of their students test proficient on Algebra I Regents exams during the 2022-2023 school year, according to state data. Of the 148 ...