While many teachers and advocates support a shift away from exit exams, which remain in use in just nine states, others raised concerns it could open the floodgates to diminished expectations, leaving graduates unprepared for college and the workforce.
The New York State Education Department proposed Monday ending a requirement that students pass Regents exams to earn a high school diploma, as part of the most sweeping overhaul of public school graduation measures in decades.
The inspector general’s hope is that as the state revamps its approach to literacy education in schools, people in prisons and juvenile detention facilities not be neglected.