Students who are taking this weekend’s SAT exams are facing new security rules, officials say.
Kathleen Rice, the district attorney in Nassau County where a cheating scandal was uncovered last year, notes that the new regulations require photo IDs. Each student now must submit a photo to register. That photo will appear on the test-admission ticket.
Students also will be subjected to ID checks throughout the exam.
The photos will then be attached to the scores sent to schools afterward.
Rice filed charges last year against 20 students. Older students were accused of being paid to stand in for others seeking better grades.
The scandal led the operators of the SAT and ACT to institute the new rules.
Most students in the scandal were deemed juvenile offenders and their records were sealed.