In many ways, the Beacon School is a New York City public high school like any other ... the students are exempt from most New York State Regents exams, so we didn't waste time with scantrons ...

Parent after parent took the mic at a public meeting in Manhattan last month, painting a dire picture of the state of special ...

High school students take AP® exams and IB exams to earn college credit and demonstrate success at college-level coursework. U.S. News calculated a College Readiness Index based on AP/IB exam ...

He said while there is a place for alternative assessment systems in a school ... earn a Regents diploma five times since the 1990s. There are 16 Consortium schools in Manhattan, 9 in Brooklyn and 4 ...

After a heralded state commission recommended major changes to New York's high ... exams like the Regents. New York could also decide to let school districts develop their own alternative ...

High school students who want to graduate with concentrations in technical courses or certain other areas of study can get a waiver from the need to pass one of their Regents history exams -- the ...

The Class of 2027 is expected to be the last in New York who need to pass Regents exams to earn a high school diploma ... and portfolios as among the alternative ways students can demonstrate ...