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Gary The Creator Oct 5, 2026

Title IX Shifted Again, But New York’s Bullying Laws Haven't: What Parents Need to Know

Washington reinstated the 2020 Title IX rules this week, but New York's Dignity Act and the Jack Reid Law still put schools on a one-school-day clock. Here is how to report bullying and what to do if the school falls short.

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Gary The Creator Sep 28, 2026

New York Requires Two Things in Sex Ed: Here Is How to See What Your District Teaches

A review of 50 New York districts found inaccurate and shame-based sex ed materials. State law leaves most of the curriculum local, and parents have four ways to see it.

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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.

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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.

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Gary The Creator Sep 4, 2026

Your Child Cannot Be Turned Away for Missing Paperwork: New York Districts Have to Enroll Them the Same Day

New York students living doubled up, in motels, in shelters or in cars have the right to enroll immediately without residency proof, immunization records or transcripts. Here is the statute, the transportation rule and the phone number that makes a district move.

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Gary The Creator Aug 30, 2026

The Number on Your Child's Score Report That Obligates the District

The 2 on the score report is not the number that matters. The three-digit scale score underneath it puts your district under obligations that run on a calendar, whether or not you ask.

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Simone P. Aug 21, 2026

The Cheapest College Credit in New York Is Sitting on Your Fall Schedule

New York wrote statewide dual enrollment rules for the first time. Whether the credit is worth anything still comes down to one question.

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Simone P. Aug 18, 2026

You Won the Hearing. Two Out of Three Orders Still Miss the Deadline.

A New York hearing officer ruling in your favor is a starting gun, not a finish line. Here is what the compliance data shows and what to do the week your order arrives.

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Gary The Creator Aug 14, 2026

You Have 14 Days. New York's School Vaccine Clock Starts the Morning Your Kid Walks In.

New York gives families exactly fourteen days from the first day of school to produce immunization records. Here is what is required by grade, what changed in Albany this year, and what did not.

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Gary The Creator Aug 14, 2026

What School Anxiety Looks Like Before the First Day of School

The stomach ache before school shopping starts. The sudden fight over nothing. The child who wants to be walked all the way inside. Here's what back-to-school anxiety actually looks like, and how parents can respond before the first bell rings.

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Gary The Creator Aug 7, 2026

New York's Free-Tuition Clock Is Ticking: A Student's August Deadline Guide

Two of New York's biggest tuition scholarships close this month. A student's plain-English guide to Excelsior, STEM Incentive, FAFSA, and SUNY Reconnect.

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Gary The Creator Aug 3, 2026

One Curriculum for Every Toddler Is Over: What New York Parents Should Watch Next.

New York City just ended its rule forcing nearly every preschool onto one curriculum. The mandate-versus-choice fight behind it is coming to districts statewide.

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