The educator expense deduction rises to $350 for 2026, and a new uncapped itemized deduction covers classroom spending beyond it. Here is how New York teachers can use both before December 31.

New York students no longer need to pass Regents exams to graduate starting in 2028, but they still have to take them. Federal testing law is why, and the state now says replacement tests won't arrive until spring 2030.

SUNY's Master Teacher Program pays STEM teachers and school counselors $60,000 over four years. The next application closes April 8, 2027, six weeks earlier than last cycle.

Federal law now lets families spend $20,000 a year of 529 savings on K-12 tuition. New York treats the same withdrawal as nonqualified, and the deductions can come back as taxable income.

New York's chatbot law bars 12 features for users under 18 starting Jan. 1, with no parent override. Here is how it differs from the SAFE for Kids rules arriving Jan. 25.

Fresh off her reelection, Gov. Kathy Hochul is questioning the state's plan to drop Regents exams as a graduation requirement and asking for control of education policy. Her office still won't say what a diploma should demand.

The first New York students who will not need Regents exams to graduate are juniors now. Albany should publish the local assessment rules before they plan senior year, not after.

Hochul's landslide, a veto-proof Senate and a Democratic Congress reshape the school fights ahead, from Foundation Aid and pre-K to the scholarship credit and mayoral control.

A new report from Comptroller Mark Levine finds K-12 enrollment down 19 percent since 2013-14, with sixth-grade classes 15 percent smaller than kindergarten and charters, private schools and homeschooling explaining little of the loss.

Students and parents asked New York City on Wednesday to extend its AI pause to high schools before a pilot reaching up to 50,000 teenagers begins. Outside the city, fewer than half of the state's 678 districts have a written AI policy, and Albany has issued no guidance.

The government quietly dropped its last appeal, so school districts stay qualifying employers. The deadline that can still cost teachers years of credit is the SAVE plan switch.

A parent's guide to 8 NYCRR 100.10: the notice, the IHIP clock, quarterly reports, the annual test and the Edmeston fight over who can give it.