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Retest for Stuy cheats

SCANDAL-ROCKED: Some Stuyvesant HS kids will get new Regents. (Daniel Shapiro)

It will be a Regents redo for the 71 students at Stuyvesant HS who cheated on the state-mandated exams, Schools Chancellor Dennis Walcott announced yesterday.

Another six students will be suspended from the elite public school and sent to “alternative learning centers” with some of the roughest and toughest troublemaker students for their role in last month’s widespread cheating scandal.

“If you are cheating then you are going to be dealt with,” warned Walcott during an interview on WOR-AM’s John Gambling radio show. Walcott, however, added that it was an “isolated” incident.

Notices to the students that they must retake the exam went out yesterday, but an “invalidated” Regents will not become part of their official school record and may not come to the attention of college-admissions officials, according to the city Department of Education. Only suspensions go on their records.

In all, students who sat for four separate Regents — Spanish, Physics, English and US History — will have to retake the exam.

The scandal came to light when 16-year-old junior Nayeem Ahsan was caught photographing the Spanish Regents with his iPhone.

Stuyvesant HS Principal Stanley Teitel later also found on Ahsan’s phone images of the English and Physics Regents, which Ahsan had distributed to other students.

“I have nothing to say,” the youth’s father, Najmul Ahsan, said outside the family’s Jackson Heights residence. He added that his son is “doing OK.”

In addition to students who cheated with Ahsan’s cellphone snaphots, another student cheated on the Physics Regents with the low-tech method of passing notes.

That student was suspended.

“Cheating has taken place for who knows how long,” Walcott said. “Now with technology, and that’s why we banned cellphones, people have the ability to use new technology to try to cheat. We’re not going to tolerate it.”

Teitel has told parents that the cheating students would lose “social privileges,” such as joining clubs and sports teams.