Regents' board may cut social studies exams
Quick ReadRegents board members signaled their intent to eliminate state testing in fifth- and eighth-grade social studies.
Photo credit: Newsday/Karen Wiles Stabile | Eighth-grade students prepare to take a Regents exam. (June 18, 2010)
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Faced with a potential $11.5-million operating deficit, Regents board members Monday signaled their intent to eliminate state testing in fifth- and eighth-grade social studies, and possibly in other subjects as well.
The testing cuts - fiercely opposed by social studies teachers - will save an estimated $800,000 during the next school year, and will be coupled with other reductions. Foreign...
