All students will be required to take the same Regents examination.
Only about 20 percent now pass all the Regents examinations.
At high school, accountability is based on the results of Regents examinations.
Such courses, however, have not always helped students on the Regents examinations.
By the time they graduate, he noted, 55 percent have passed the Regents examinations.
There is a sense that all students will be successful on the state's Regents examinations.
A similar mistake would have far greater implications, for example, on the high school Regents examinations, which is a pass/fail test.
Within five years every high school student's fate will depend on a battery of Regents examinations.
He referred to a Regents examination in chemistry last year whose questions were also circulated.
To pass all the Regents examinations, they need well-qualified teachers in every grade.