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The New York State Education Building in Albany, a Beaux-Arts building with a long row of Corinthian columns.

new yorkJul 1, 20266 min read

New York Made the Regents Exam Optional Without Deciding What Comes Next

New York's Board of Regents just eliminated the Regents exam requirement for a diploma. The state has not said what will replace it, even though a rigorous, working alternative has existed in New York City for almost thirty years.

By Dyson Wu

The top of an official absentee ballot sitting in a sorting tray

school boardJun 27, 20266 min read

Your School Board Election Is the Cheapest One in America to Steal, Just Ask Hempstead

A sitting Hempstead trustee finished third at the voting machines and first once the absentee ballots were counted, and the votes that flipped it were later found shredded in a dumpster. The clerk who ran the election worked for the board she helped pick. That is the real scandal.

By Reid M. Turner

An Upper West Side, Manhattan street scene with residential apartment towers, storefronts, a street tree, and traffic signals under a blue sky.

parental rightsJun 24, 20266 min read

New York Elementary School Made Fifth Graders Rehearse Being Shot by Police

On Multicultural Day, fifth graders at P.S. 75 on the Upper West Side mimed being shot by police and held adults' political signs. The deepest harm was not that parents got no notice. It was what the stage rehearsed into a ten-year-old's heart.

By Tabby Parker