The Class of 2020 will not have to pass Regents exams in order to graduate. That was made official on Tuesday by the State Education Department which cancelled the exams a day earlier. Instead students simply need to pass the courses in which an exam would have been administered. Plans to revamp the Regents exam system are now being delayed by a year because of the coronavirus outbreak.

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