Only six states still require graduation assessments after New York and Massachusetts announced plans to end the practice.

Massachusetts voters approved a measure ending the requirement that students pass a test to graduate. In 2012, half the ...

Jill Norton, an education policy adviser in Massachusetts, has a teenage son with dyslexia and ADHD. Shelley Scruggs, an ...

The data released by the state Education Department shows how students fared on August 2023 and January 2024 Algebra I ...

Every school district in New York must revert to teaching phonics in grades pre-K through third, starting this fall, the ...

Modernizing the Foundation Aid formula and funding to implement new high school graduation requirements were among the top ...

Regents exams will no longer be a graduation requirement for New York State students. The State Department of Education ...

Rosa expressed relief that the report avoided eliminating the Save Harmless provision, which protects districts from funding ...

I had extremely good results teaching a particular class of students who were not expected to pass the Regents exams. They were in the same English and social studies classes, with another class ...

The state’s Education Department proposed the plan in June, saying that the exams would no longer be ... "The Board of Regents is firmly committed to the belief that all students deserve ...

Benjamin-Gomez: A proposal to exempt some students from the rigorous Board of Regents exams could end up promoting greater ...

On Monday, the State Education Department presented its timeline for ditching the exams; the Board of Regents is now expected to green-light it. The plan is to simply award “diplomas” to all s ...