Dear NYS Principals and Administrators,

If your school ordered Regents and ended up opting out and not using them, here is the guidance we received from NYSED. This guidance does not apply to schools who didn’t order Regents at all.

  • Unused Regents Exam booklets should be locked in a secure storage space for a period of at least 7 days after the date of the last exam, June 24.
  • After those seven days, you can securely destroy the unused test material, except for the materials that need to be returned to NYSED.

Unless they have been specifically requested from your school, do NOT ship unused examination booklets back to the Education Department.

If no examinations are administered, please include a note, on school letterhead, bearing the principal’s signature, indicating that your school did not administer some or all of the exam materials that were shipped to your school (please provide sufficient details within the note), and attach the note to the SIGNED Proctor, Storage and/or Scoring certificates. The return of the signed certificates, along with your note, will serve to inform our office that no examinations were administered.

Materials That Must Be Returned to the Department in Regents Boxes:

1. Examination Scoring Certificate (DET527)
2. Deputy and Proctor Certificate (DET522)
3. Examination Storage Certificate (DET 525)
4. All copies, used and unused, of restricted test booklets and answer booklets/answer sheets (Include all Part 2 test booklets, where applicable), and all scoring materials for restricted tests
5. All copies of braille examination materials
6. Padlock keys (Insert padlock keys into the special envelope provided, before placing them in the Regents box.)

7. Any Regents Examination answer papers indicated by the Department Review Request form, unless this form specifies an alternate address to which these answer papers must be shipped

If possible, pack all materials being returned to the Department in one Regents box. Return all Regents boxes as soon as possible after the examination period. Each school must pay for the return shipment of its Regents boxes; the boxes may not be returned collect. The boxes may be returned by United Parcel Service (UPS) or any other carrier. Regardless of the carrier chosen, the school must call the carrier, make the necessary arrangements, and pay for the return shipment. If the Regents boxes for a school are returned collect, the Department will refuse to accept the delivery.

The shipping address is:

Test Distribution Unit
New York State Education Department
Cultural Education Center
Empire State Plaza
222 Madison Avenue
Room 167

Albany, NY 12230

If you have any questions, you can reach out to the Office of State Assessment at 518-474-5902.

As always, feel free to reach out to [email protected] with any questions.

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Rabbi Yehoshua Pinkus
Director of Yeshiva Services

Ami Bazov, Esq.
Coordinator of Education Affairs

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