From the State Education Department's Office of Standards, Assessment and Reporting:

TO: District Superintendents, Superintendents of Schools and Commissioner's Advisory Council on Nonpublic Schools

FROM: David Abrams, Assistant Commissioner, Office of Standards, Assessment and Reporting

SUBJECT: Regents Examination Dates for January and June 2009-2011

Provided here are the final dates for the January and June Regents Examination periods for 2009 and 2010, along with the tentative dates for the 2011 administrations. Having this information now will enable schools to establish their calendars and facilitate planning and arrangements for important events such as staff development activities, class trips, and commencement exercises.

The final dates provided below are similar to those specified in the draft proposal of examination dates distributed for comment last November. Please note that beginning with the June 2008 Regents Examination period secondary-level examinations will be administered during both the morning and afternoon sessions on the first day. The Department will not be adding any extra time beyond this additional half day of testing to either the June 2009 or June 2010 examination periods as the new Regents Examinations in Geometry and Algebra 2/Trigonometry are phased in. It is our intention that the first time each of these examinations is available, it will be scheduled for the first morning during its initial administration period. This will aid in standard setting and subsequent score validation activities associated with the implementation of the three new Regents Examinations in mathematics being phased in, one new examination per year, through June 2010.

Our primary consideration is to make these examination periods as conducive to student achievement as possible. We believe that the testing dates presented here will enable us to provide examination schedules that are equitable for all students and that minimize conflicts for students with disabilities.

In each June examination period, the last date indicated is the Rating Day. No examinations will be scheduled on this day.

January		June
2009	Tuesday, January 27 through Friday, January 30, 2009	Tuesday, June 16 through Thursday, June 25, 2009
2010	Tuesday, January 26 through Friday, January 29, 2010	Tuesday, June 15 through Thursday, June 24, 2010
2011	TENTATIVE Tuesday, January 25 through Friday, January 28, 2011	TENTATIVE Wednesday, June 15 through Friday, June 24, 2011