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.

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 ...

Students experiencing a major injury or other traumatic event could obtain an exemption from taking a state Regents exam under a regulatory change given preliminary approval Monday by state education ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Did you or your child take the Biology or Earth Science Regents Exam in June? How did they feel about it after? New York State ...

Reading it immediately brought me back to my final year of high school in 1974, when copies of the New York State Regents ...

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 ...

These standardized tests have a history in New York going back 150 years and have been used as a barometer for whether kids have received a good education before exiting high school. Students are ...

Just eight U.S. states, New York among them, make students pass exit exams to graduate high school. Now comes word the Empire State may drop its Regents exams, spurring critics to howl that already ...

Dozens of school districts across Long Island recorded passage rates of 90% or better during the latest administration of state Regents exams in algebra and English, a Newsday analysis found. On both ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — New York State released the results of Regents exams taken over the 2021-2022 school year, which includes results of how proficient high school students on Staten Island were on ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — New York State recently released the results of Regents exams taken over the 2021-2022 school year, including data showing how proficient high school students on Staten Island ...