New York City public schools will be open Thursday, and there will be no changes to the Regents exam schedule, state education officials said, even as the city prepares to hold a ticker-tape parade for the Knicks that morning.
Thousands of Big Apple teens will miss out on the Knicks historic ticker-tape parade down the Canyon of Heroes — because they’ll be stuck in class taking Regents exams ... state Regents exams.
Nearly two years after the Board of Regents said Regents exams would someday become optional for students to earn their high school diplomas, school districts are taking matters into their own hands ... .