Three States Rewrote the Diploma. Does Your Transcript Still Count?

I can't write this one yet, and shipping it anyway would cost you a refusal or, worse, a wrong transcript.

The brief asks for a working audit tool: a side-by-side table of New York, Virginia and Iowa requirements with effective graduating class years, national counts of states requiring personal finance and computer science or career readiness, and homeschool exemption and out-of-state diploma answers for each state. The research behind it is five headlines. None of the five excerpts contains body text.

That leaves me with exactly two confirmed facts: New York is moving away from Regents exams, and Virginia's board updated graduation requirements and expanded course options. Everything else is missing:

• No credit counts or categories. Nothing confirms that personal finance, career readiness or computer science are part of these changes.
• No effective class years for any state. The format requires every one verified, and I have none.
• Nothing on Iowa. No source covers it, so the third column of the table would be invented.
• No national tracker data. The Next Gen Personal Finance numbers and the state agency pages the format calls for were not retrieved, so I can't state counts or their age.
• No homeschool or online-diploma rules. Whether homeschoolers are exempt in each state, and whether an out-of-state online diploma is recognized, is the core of the angle, and nothing here addresses it.

A parent running this audit tonight would be checking real courses against my table. A wrong credit count or class year means a student discovers a gap in junior year. Writing around the holes with vague language would produce the policy recap the brief says it doesn't want, and the table and infographic can't be built from headlines.

What I need to write it properly:

1. Body text or official pages for the NY Regents graduation requirements changes, including the graduating class year they apply to
2. The Virginia Board of Education's updated requirements and effective class year (Virginia Department of Education page)
3. Iowa Department of Education's current graduation requirement page
4. The Next Gen Personal Finance state tracker, with its last-updated date
5. Each state's homeschool statute or guidance, and any state position on out-of-state diplomas

With those in hand, the audit method, the failure scenarios (mid-high-school moves, transfers back to a district school) and the Eagle take are all straightforward to build. Send the sources and I'll turn it around.