A transcript that represents what your kid actually did.

The pain

Your kid's school doesn't teach in periods, doesn't grade in A to F, and doesn't produce a transcript a receiver recognizes. The school may be brilliant at the actual learning and uninterested in the paperwork, because the paperwork was designed for a different system.

When a college, employer, agency, or program asks for records, the school produces a narrative, a portfolio, a competency rubric, or a Portrait. The receiver tries to translate it back into credit hours. Something gets lost in translation. The kid pays for the friction.

What New York decided, with dates

Checked against the Department's releases of July 14, 2025, June 15, 2026, and September 14, 2026, and the reports linked beside each fact. Requirements on this page last reviewed September 16, 2026. The Department's text is always the source of truth.

July 14, 2025. The Board of Regents adopted the New York State Portrait of a Graduate (the Department's release). The Department's own description names six attributes: academically prepared, creative innovator, critical thinker, effective communicator, global citizen, and reflective and future focused (the Department's page on the attributes). Chalkbeat reported the same day that the exams would stop being a graduation requirement beginning in the 2027-28 school year and that the Class of 2031 would be the first group under new credit requirements (Chalkbeat, July 14, 2025).

June 15, 2026. The Department's release says students “will demonstrate readiness through evidence of learning developed over time,” that it “will establish statewide performance standards, common rubrics, quality assurance processes, and accountability measures,” and quotes Commissioner Betty A. Rosa on “demonstrated readiness rather than accumulated seat time” (the release). New York Focus's report of the Regents meeting quotes Deputy Commissioner Angelique Johnson-Dingle on current transcripts, which do not adequately reflect what a student knows and can do, and says graduates would receive a “universal transcript or learner profile,” with the drafts expected within the next year, and that the change would be fully implemented for students who enter high school in 2029 (New York Focus, June 19, 2026). The transcript phrase and the timeline are the report's account of the state's plan; neither is in the Department's release, and nothing on this page treats them as a Department commitment.

September 14, 2026. The Department's release says the Board of Regents authorized the next phase: a single New York State high school diploma; beginning with students graduating in 2028, students will no longer be required to pass a prescribed set of Regents examinations to graduate; and proposed regulatory amendments go to the Board by February 2027 to implement the changes in the 2027-28 school year (the release).

The rubrics do not exist yet. Nothing on this site assigns a level against them, because there is nothing to assign it against.

What a record can carry today

A Witness Transcript™ can carry Portrait evidence now. On any course row, the school that declared the course or the family that issued the transcript names one adopted attribute, says what kind of evidence it was (a capstone, a work sample, an oral defense, an observation, or a project), writes one line saying what it was, and asks the adult who was there to sign it from an emailed link, with no login. That signature is the same witness attestation a course co-signature is; the grade is optional for that witness, because they are signing what they saw. The verify page and the printed transcript list each attribute with its signed evidence and who signed it, as counts. An attribute with nothing shows nothing.

The attribute list is data, versioned to the July 14, 2025 adoption. When NYSED publishes its rubrics, the plugin takes the state's words rather than inventing its own, and the rows already signed keep pointing at the attribute they named.

What waits for the state

Any level. No rubric exists, so no row carries one, and no surface shows a score, an average, or a rank. What a receiver does with a signed row is the receiver's decision; verifying one link is free and needs no account.

What a family gets

A record that holds the real artifacts

Projects, portfolios, evaluations, mastery checks, narrative reports, competency rubrics, capstone evidence, videos, code, written work: all of it, held by the family, encrypted, exportable in open formats.

A transcript that translates it

When a receiver needs a transcript, you issue one from the record. It speaks both languages: the Portrait and competency framing the school used, and a receiver-readable summary that doesn't flatten what actually happened. Verifiable. Revocable. Yours.

Receipts every time it's shared

Every share of a record is logged with a verifiable receipt. Who asked, what you sent, when, on what terms. The audit log is yours.

Free for the learner, forever, by contract

The record is free for the learner in perpetuity, and the clause survives acquisition. Read it on the sovereignty page.

If you run the program

An Alpha-style, PBL, or micro-school program holds learners, which makes it an issuer. You import your roster, declare the courses you taught, name Portrait evidence on those courses, your teachers sign by link, and every family claims a record they keep after they leave you. The offer and the terms are on the issuer page.

Guides for families building their own records

• Portrait of a Graduate transcripts: for families in NY, VA, SC, UT, KY, NC, TN, and 8 other Portrait states.
• Mastery-based transcripts: a family guide, for Alpha-style, micro-school, and competency-based families.
• How to make a homeschool transcript verifiable at one link: field-by-field guide and verification.

What you actually issue

A print-ready PDF transcript with courses, signed Portrait evidence per attribute, and a sealed receipt id any receiver can verify directly. SHA-256 over every byte. No Eformogi account required on the receiver's side.

What Eformogi is

Eformogi is a record of learning the student owns, witnessed by the adults who were there, verifiable at one link with no login, and issued by the schools and counselors who hold the learners.