Created: March 15, 2021 01:16 PM
The Board of Regents voted unanimously Monday to cancel all state exams in June, except for four federally mandated tests.
Those tests are in English, Math, Earth Science, and the Living Environment.
The August exams will be canceled.
The tests will not be required to earn diplomas this year. Students just have to pass the course to graduate.
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If the Department of Education grants a waiver for the tests, then all Regents exams will be cancelled.
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Jim Kersten
Iowa Central received a total of $3,204,692 in total federal first round of CARES Act (COVID) relief funding in the spring of 2020, of which $1,526,599 was used for institutional costs associated with significant changes to the delivery of instruction due to the CARES Act. (COVID)
The institutional funds received from the CARES Act were used to cover any costs associated with significant changes to the delivery of instruction due to the coronavirus, emergency grants for enrolled students, as well as losses associated with COVID.
The federal law required we invest at least an equal amount of our federal institutional COVID relief funding, $1,526,599, on behalf of student related emergency needs, which we did do via direct grants to students, with an average grant per student of $1,257.50. 1214 students received grants ranging from $500-$2,000, depending upon their need.
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