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COVID-19: NY Cancels Next Scheduled Regents Exam Due To Pandemic COVID-19: NY Cancels Next Scheduled Regents Exam Due To Pandemic
Covid-19: NY Cancels Next Scheduled Regents Exam Due To Pandemic There will be no Regents exams for high school students in New York this January as the state continues combating the COVID-19 crisis. The New York State Education Department announced on Thursday, Nov. 5 that the ongoing pandemic has wiped out the chance of administering the Regents exams in January 2021. No decisions have been made yet regarding the June and August 2021 Regents exams, interim State Education Commissioner Betty Rosa announced. “Throughout the pandemic, our priority has been the health and wellbeing of our students and educators,” she said. “We determined the January Regen…

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Math, English Language Arts Standardized Test Scores Improve Across NY Math, English Language Arts Standardized Test Scores Improve Across NY
Math, English Language Arts Standardized Test Scores Improve Across NY New York State students saw an uptick in standardized testing scores for students in grades 3 through 8, the State Education Department announced. The Education Department released the results of the 2019 English language arts (ELA) and math tests. In ELA, 45.4 percent of test-takers scored at the proficient level. In math, 46.7 graded at a proficient level. The numbers represent a .02 percent increase for ELA and 2.2 percent for math from 2018. 987,398 students took the ELA, while 948,606 took the math test. Statewide, the test refusal rate was approximately 16 percent, down 2 percent from…

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Three Mount Vernon Schools Upgraded From Focus Schools To Good Standing Three Mount Vernon Schools Upgraded From Focus Schools To Good Standing
Three Mount Vernon Schools Upgraded From Focus Schools To Good Standing Good news keeps pouring in for the Mount Vernon School District. After years of student struggles, Columbus, Hamilton and Rebecca Turner elementary schools have been awarded designation upgrades to “schools in good standing” after being designated as “focus schools’ by the New York State Education Department. The NYSED defines a “school in good standing” as one “which has not been identified as a school in need of improvement, requiring corrective action, planning for restructuring, or requiring academic progress, or as a school under registration review.” School officials attributed the t…

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