Beacon Academy of Nevada will open a second Las Vegas campus this fall in an effort to reach more at-risk high school students ... to become an alternative school. Now, the school offers a ...

The tentative new standard replaces the current graduation requirement of passing five Regents tests with a new “4+1 option” – passing four Regents tests and a fifth alternative, which could ...

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 ...

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 ...