Regents board won't assure all tests will survive cuts
Quick ReadNeither Regents nor other education officials issued any assurances that all 16 of the state's high school exams would survive the latest round of proposed budget cuts.
Photo credit: Newsday File / Jack McCoy | Wheatley High School teacher Faith Toperoff talks to her English class. (March 17, 2007)
ALBANY - In the face of teachers' stunned reaction to suggestions that Regents exams might be scrapped, the head of the state Board of Regents insisted Monday there was no intent to eliminate a historic testing system still used to enforce minimum academic standards for hundreds of thousands of students.
Merryl Tisch of Manhattan, chairman of the state Board of Regents, added that she and...
