The denial by Russian legal scholars of the existence of the educational law of its own method of legal regulation is untenable. Educational relations officially recognized by the legislator as a type of social relations, it is necessary to establish a special legal regime for their implementation in the immediate reality. This special legal regime is the essence and content of the method of educational law. Among the basic principles that most clearly characterize the unique content of this branch of law, we can distinguish such principles as: 1) the availability and General validity of General education; 2) the availability of secondary vocational and higher education; 3) imperative and dispositive; 4) disciplinary responsibility.