The state’s cancellation of January Regents exams due to COVID-19 was expected, says Rome school district Superintendent Peter C. Blake, but he also noted there could be complications regarding overall Regents exam requirements.
The issue, Blake said Friday, is that “the Board of Regents has not waived the requirements for Regents exams so this could potentially cause major problems, although there is a recommendation in front of the board” to do so. “More to come for sure on this topic,” Blake commented.
Among impacts from the exam cancellation for the Rome district, Blake noted, “we generally have our honors English kids take the exam early so they will be affected.” In addition, “every other Regents course is also affected for kids that had failed an exam previously and need a passing exam to graduate.”
The exam cancellation, involving all Regents exams scheduled for the January period, was announced Thursday by interim state Education Commissioner Betty A. Rosa.
The announcement said the state Education Department at the December Board of Regents meeting will propose modifications to assessment requirements that must be met by students to earn high school diplomas, credentials, and endorsements. The modifications apply to all students who are completing a secondary-level course of study or make-up program in January and were scheduled to participate in one or more of the January Regents exams.
Under proposed emergency regulations that the department will ask the board to adopt, students who were planning to take one or more Regents exams during the January examination period at the conclusion of a course of study or make-up program would be exempt from the requirements pertaining to passing such exams to be issued a diploma. To qualify for the exemption, the announcement said, the student must meet one of these conditions:
• Be currently enrolled in a course of study that would ordinarily culminate in the taking of a January 2021 Regents exam and earn credit for such course of study by the end of the first semester of the 2020-21 school year; or
• Between Sept. 1, 2020 and the end of the first semester of the 2020-21 school year, successfully complete a make-up program for the purpose of earning course credit; or
• Be preparing to take a required Regents exam to graduate at the end of the first semester of the 2020-21 school year.
All current safety-net options remain in effect for all students and must be considered in the determination of which diploma type can be awarded, the announcement noted. It said that to determine whether general education students, English language learners, and students with disabilities are eligible to earn either a Regents or local diploma, districts and charter schools should consider an exempted examination to be a score of 65. But students with a disability eligible for the compensatory safety net may not use exemptions on tests to compensate for lower test scores.
Exams from which students have been given an exemption as a result of the COVID-19 related cancellation of the January Regents exams shall be excluded from any calculation used for determining eligibility for an Honors or Mastery endorsement on a diploma, the announcement added. Regarding Honors endorsements to a Regents diploma or a Regents with Advanced Designation diploma, if a student achieves a calculated average of 90 or above on all exams taken applicable to their diploma type, they will attain the honors endorsement on that diploma. Any exams exempted as a result of the COVID-19 related cancellation of the January 2021 exams shall not be included in such calculation, the announcement said.
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