Canceling exit exams hides gaps

Eliminating high‑stakes graduation exams (New York's Regents) is being pitched as an equity fix, but it can also remove a public metric that reveals racial and performance gaps and that provides recognition and mobility signals for top students. The policy trade‑off is between short‑term removal of a visible disparity and long‑term accountability and signal loss. — This reframes a familiar debate (test‑removal vs remediation) as a governance choice about public measurement and signaling with concrete consequences for students, parents, and institutions.