Rosa said in the letter to colleagues that the Department of Education would soon ask the Board of Regents of the University of the State of New York "to approve a graduation exemption" for students scheduled to take the history exam next month. The agency would not provide details to Insider on what the question on the history exam entailed and instead directed Insider to submit a Freedom of Information Law request to the department. The state Department of Education confirmed that one question led to the cancellation of the test. "While developed by NYS-certified social studies teachers more than two years ago and field-tested to confirm that the exam's content is educationally sound, the tragedy in Buffalo has created an unexpected and unintended context for the planned assessment," Rosa wrote in the letter, which was posted online by the state's Department of Education. Rosa wrote that in the "wake of the heinous mass shooting in Buffalo," content experts from the state's Education Department in partnership with state educators reviewed all of the June 2022 Regents exams and "determined that there is content" on the history test "that has the potential to compound student trauma caused by the recent violence in Buffalo." In a Tuesday letter to colleagues, State Education Commissioner Betty Rosa explained the reasoning behind the cancellation of the Regents examination in US history and government - which was scheduled to be held for the first time on June 1. The New York State Education Department has canceled a statewide standardized history exam over a question on the test that it says had the "potential to compound student trauma" caused by the recent deadly mass shooting at a Buffalo grocery store.
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