NEW YORK—Seventy students at Stuyvesant High School caught cheating late last month on Regents exams will be allowed to retake the tests.
A junior at the prestigious Manhattan high school allegedly took photographs of three exams with a cellphone and passed them on to 69 other students, according to an investigation by the city’s Department of Education (DOE). The junior faces suspension.
Another student also allegedly cheated on the physics Regents exam by passing notes. The student’s physics exam will be invalidated, and the student will also face suspension, the DOE said.
Final disciplinary actions are still being discussed, according to the DOE, while the students will retake the exams in either August or January.
The Regents are state exams that determine a student’s eligibility to graduate. A student needs at least a 65 on the English Regents exam to graduate high school in New York, and at least 75 in English and 80 in math to avoid taking remedial courses in college.
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