ALBANY â The U.S. Department of Education has denied a waiver request from the state Education Department to forego state assessments this year. But the assessments which begin this month and the Regents exams in June will be scaled back, and the August Regents exams will be canceled. Only Section 1 of the Math and English Language Arts assessments for grades three through eight will administered rather than two sessions, and only the written test component of the grades four and eight Science assessments will be administered. The grades three through eight English Language Arts assessment is scheduled to be administered from April 19 to April 29, and the grades three through eight Mathematics assessment is scheduled to be administered from May 3 to May 14. The grade four and eight Science assessment is scheduled to be administered from June 7 to June 11.