The Definitive Guide to New York Education & Parenting

Gary The Creator Sep 23, 2026

The Tenure Clock: What a New York District Owes You Before It Says No

Four years, sixty days, thirty days, seven days. The statutory deadlines that decide a New York probationary teacher's tenure are written down, favorable, and almost never explained in the building.

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News & Updates

Gary The Creator Sep 23, 2026

New York Moves to Let Nurse Practitioners Clear Student Athletes to Play Again

A Regents item taken up September 14 and 15 would add certified nurse practitioners to the list of professionals who can sign a student back onto the field after a concussion or cardiac episode. Comment opens September 30.

News & Updates

Gary The Creator Sep 22, 2026

New York's First Phone-Ban Enforcement Reports Are Out, and Nobody Is Required to Collect Them

Every New York district owed the public a report on who got disciplined under the phone ban by September 1. The ones we found range from a detailed disparity analysis to a bare count, and the state keeps no list of who complied.

Business & Operations

Gary The Creator Sep 21, 2026

The Regents Asked for $20 Million in Pre-K Aid and Got $450.9 Million: The 2027-28 Request Starts From a November 15 File

Last cycle Albany gave schools $544.6 million more than the Regents asked for, most of it pre-K, and zeroed a career education line. The 2027-28 request is being built now from data that locks November 15.

The Standard Guides

Gary The Creator Sep 19, 2026

New York Is Rewriting Who Counts as a High School Graduate for Tap

A revised Regents amendment names accredited online, homeschool and Part 130 nonpublic graduates as eligible for state tuition aid without a test. One clause leaves out graduates of schools that qualify only through a testing phase-in running through 2032-33.

Parent Support

Gary The Creator Sep 18, 2026

What Families Should Know: Your Child Can Leave a New York High School With 216 Hours and a Signed Profile. It Is Not a Diploma, and It Does Not End Their Right to One.

New York's CDOS Commencement Credential takes 216 hours, 54 of them supervised work-based learning, a career plan started in ninth grade and a signed employability profile. Here is how it works, how it turns into a diploma, and the question September's Regents vote left unanswered.

Parent Support

Gary The Creator Sep 17, 2026

Your School's Report Card Still Shows Chronic Absenteeism But Albany Stopped Grading Schools On It

New York swapped its Chronic Absenteeism Indicator for an Attendance Indicator that scores every student on the days they showed up. The familiar eighteen-day number is still published, and it no longer decides anything.

News & Updates

Gary The Creator Sep 16, 2026

New Yorkers Asked for a Personal Finance Class: The State Said No to Funding One

Commenters asked the Board of Regents to require a semester of personal finance before graduation. The department declined, citing local control, and wrote that it cannot attach funding to a rule. Only 3.8 percent of New York high schoolers get the class anyway.

News & Updates

Gary The Creator Sep 15, 2026

New York Cut School Pension Rates Twice This Year

DiNapoli set the 2027-28 NYSLRS rates at 17.3 percent for ERS and 37.4 percent for police and fire. For school districts, the relief lands on one payroll column only.

The Playbook

Gary The Creator Sep 15, 2026

Incidental Teaching Ceiling Rises Again in New York

The Board of Regents is expected to adopt an emergency rule extending the ten-hour incidental teaching allowance through 2026-27. Here is what the regulation requires, what your district owes you on renewal, and the deadlines that follow.

Business & Operations

Gary The Creator Sep 14, 2026

New York Electric Buses: The Cost Beyond the Deadline

Albany pushed the electric school bus mandate from 2027 to 2032 inside the state budget. The fleet size, the price of a bus and the $700 million behind the transition did not move with it.

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Business & Operations

Gary The Creator Sep 14, 2026

New York Set Aside $191 Million for the Teacher Shortage: It Spent $118.9 Million

A new State Comptroller audit found $72.4 million in teacher-shortage grant money never spent, and 190 districts that had never heard the programs existed.

New York Cut School Pension Rates Twice This Year

Incidental Teaching Ceiling Rises Again in New York

New York Working Papers Go Digital in 2027: What Changes

The Tenure Clock: What a New York District Owes You Before It Says No

New York Moves to Let Nurse Practitioners Clear Student Athletes to Play Again

New York's First Phone-Ban Enforcement Reports Are Out, and Nobody Is Required to Collect Them

The Regents Asked for $20 Million in Pre-K Aid and Got $450.9 Million: The 2027-28 Request Starts From a November 15 File

New York Is Rewriting Who Counts as a High School Graduate for Tap

What Families Should Know: Your Child Can Leave a New York High School With 216 Hours and a Signed Profile. It Is Not a Diploma, and It Does Not End Their Right to One.

Your School's Report Card Still Shows Chronic Absenteeism But Albany Stopped Grading Schools On It

New Yorkers Asked for a Personal Finance Class: The State Said No to Funding One

New York Cut School Pension Rates Twice This Year

Incidental Teaching Ceiling Rises Again in New York

New York Electric Buses: The Cost Beyond the Deadline

New York Set Aside $191 Million for the Teacher Shortage: It Spent $118.9 Million

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