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.

Buffalo held four listening sessions on its closure plan, and the law required none of them. Albany should make Education Law 402-a mandatory before enrollment decline closes more buildings.

CUNY reported 3.2 percent enrollment growth this fall and about 27,000 more students than in 2022. New York City's own performance report shows what happens to those students after they enroll.

Treasury's scholarship tax credit rules take comments through Dec. 1, with a hearing Dec. 15. Here is what the rules leave to New York, what they forbid, and how districts, scholarship groups and parents can weigh in.

Neither campaign posts an education plan. Here is what Kathy Hochul and Bruce Blakeman have each put in writing on phones, meals, child care, scholarships and school aid, and where each has said nothing.

The Jackie Robinson Foundation's 2026-27 scholarship pays up to $35,000 over four years and closes Jan. 14. It requires U.S. citizenship, a CSS Profile and a careful read of the fine print.