The Coalition Makes Recommendations Regarding the Board of Regents» Testing Reduction Report In May 2015, the Coalition wrote two letters [PDF] urging the Chancellor and Board of Regents to address modifications to
the Regents exam requirements as part of their report on reducing state testing and improving test quality.
Not exact matches
The New York State Board of
Regents went further in its efforts to make it easier for students with disabilities to graduate from high school, essentially eliminating the
requirement that they pass any
Regents exams.
A CTE assessment that meets the approved alternative
requirements for Science can be substituted for the required Science
Regents exam.
Among the reform milestones they achieved were a new
requirement that 40 percent of a teacher's evaluation be based on student achievement; raising the charter school cap from 200 to 460; and higher student achievement goals on the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) 4th grade and 8th grade reading tests and
Regents exams.
Those
requirements mandate that all students pass state
regents exams in major subject areas in order to graduate, according to a Rochester school official who spoke anonymously.»
The New York board of
regents last week swept out the state competency tests as a graduation
requirement and replaced them with the tougher
regents»
exams traditionally geared to the state's college - bound students.
Noting that the previous change to loosen
requirements for students with disabilities was made last year, Mr. Sigmund continued, «Removing another graduation
requirement, demonstrating a minimum score on ELA and Math
Regents exams, so soon after the last change is the wrong direction.»
High School Promotion and Graduation
Requirements (also available in Spanish) This fact sheet lists criteria for promotion from 9th, 10th, and 11th grades, as well as high school graduation requirements (credits and Reg
Requirements (also available in Spanish) This fact sheet lists criteria for promotion from 9th, 10th, and 11th grades, as well as high school graduation
requirements (credits and Reg
requirements (credits and
Regents exams).
She works Saturday mornings to help students prepare for the state's standardized tests, and next month, one - third of the school's eighth graders will take the science
Regents exam, a
requirement only in the ninth grade.
1800 students and parents staged a demonstration at the capitol building in Albany, NY in an effort to ease the strict new high school graduation
requirements around the
Regents exams.
Students routinely scored poorly on the English and history
Regents exams, a New York State graduation
requirement: the essay questions were just too difficult.