Sophie Grosserode – Rockland/Westchester Journal News USA TODAY NETWORK – in the D&C on 11/6/2020 on page A4
The January Regents exams will be canceled since they can’t be administered safely and fairly, interim state Education Commissioner Betty Rosa announced Thursday.
New York high school students who were scheduled to take Regents exams in January 2021 will receive the same exemptions that were granted for the June and August exams, which were also canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Under normal circumstances, students have to pass at least five Regents exams to earn a diploma. But with another round of the exams canceled, students taking courses this semester that would ordinarily culminate with a Regents exam will be eligible to get full credit for the course without taking the state exam.