Title EDN, Education

§ 1718. Limitation upon expenditures. 1. No board of education shall incur a district liability in excess of the amount appropriated by a district meeting unless such board is specially authorized by law to incur such liability. 2. Notwithstanding the provisions of subdivision o…

§ 1719. Deposit, custody and payment of moneys in villages. 1. All moneys raised for the support of schools in any union free school district whose boundaries are coterminous with the boundaries of an incorporated village or apportioned to the same by the education department or…

§ 1720. Moneys and accounts in union free school districts. 1. All moneys raised in a union free school district or apportioned thereto by the education department or otherwise, shall be paid to the treasurer of the district entitled to receive the same, and be applied to the us…

§ 1721. Records; reports. It shall be the duty of the board of education of a union free school district to keep an accurate record of all its proceedings in books provided for that purpose. It shall also be the duty of said board to cause to be published once in each year, duri…

§ 1722. Application of article. The provisions of this article shall apply to all union free school districts heretofore organized pursuant to the provisions of chapter four hundred thirty-three of the laws of eighteen hundred fifty-three, and the amendments thereof, chapter fiv…

§ 1723-a. Temporary investment of school moneys. The board of education of any union free school district may authorize the district treasurer or other officer having custody of district moneys to invest moneys of the district in the manner provided by section eleven of the gene…

§ 1724. Form and audit of claims. 1. No claim against a central school district or a union free school district, except for compensation for services of an officer or employee engaged at agreed wages by the hour, day, week, month or year or for the principal of or interest on in…

§ 1725. Lease of personal property. 1. Notwithstanding any incon- sistent provision of law, a board of education of any union free school district may enter into agreements for the lease of personal property. 2. Before executing any such agreement, the board of education must ad…

§ 1725-a. Powers of boards of education; instructional equipment. Notwithstanding any inconsistent provision of law, the board of education of any school district is hereby authorized and empowered to enter into agreements for the lease-purchase of instructional equipment, with …

§ 1726. Lease and lease-purchase of buildings. 1. Notwithstanding any inconsistent provision of law, the board of education of any union free school district may enter into agreements pursuant to the provisions of this section for the lease or lease-purchase of buildings for sch…

§ 174. Powers formerly exercised by the state board of geographic names. The regents, or such bureau, division or officers of the university or of the education department as may be designated by them for such purpose, shall 1. Determine and establish the correct historical and …

§ 18. Severability and construction. The provisions of this article shall be severable, and if any court of competent jurisdiction declares any phrase, clause, sentence or provision of this article to be invalid, or its applicability to any government agency, person or circumsta…

§ 180. Definitions. Wherever used in this part V of this article: 1. The term "eligible employee" means each employee of the education department who occupies a position which is designated by the commissioner as requiring the rendering of professional services within the field …

§ 1801. Formation and changes of central school districts. 1. The commissioner of education is hereby authorized and empowered to lay out central school districts for the establishment of central schools to give instruction in elementary or elementary and high school subjects an…

§ 1802. Organization procedure. 1. New central school districts shall be organized as provided in this subdivision. a. When an order laying out a central school district has been made and entered as provided in section eighteen hundred one of this chapter, a petition may be pres…

§ 1803. Proceedings at meeting. 1. Any meeting held pursuant to the notice provided in section eighteen hundred two shall be called to order by a school official or a qualified voter of the district, designated by the commissioner of education for the purpose. The first order of…

§ 1803-a. Alternative voting procedure. 1. When an order laying out a central school district has been made and entered as provided in section eighteen hundred one of this chapter, and the petitions referred to in paragraph a of subdivision one of section eighteen hundred two th…

§ 1804. Board of education; election; powers and duties. 1. Each such central school district shall be managed by a board of education consisting of five, seven or nine members, which board shall have the same powers and duties as boards of education in union free school distric…

§ 1805. Powers of central school district; officers of component districts; transition state aid. All central school districts shall have the same powers and be subject to the same limitations that are now conferred or imposed by law upon union free school districts as provided …

§ 1807. Transportation of school children. 1. The commissioner of education shall have power in any such central school district to require the payment by the district of such expense of transportation of school children to and from the schools they legally attend within the dis…

§ 1809. Apportionment to central school districts containing former central school districts. Whenever a new central school district shall be laid out and organized out of territory including existing central school districts, or whenever a central school district shall have ter…

§ 181. Education department optional retirement program established. 1. There is hereby established an education department optional retirement program which shall provide for the continuation of contracts providing retirement and death benefits for or on behalf of electing empl…

§ 182. Rates of contribution. 1. Employer contributions. In the case of any electing employee initially appointed on or before June thirtieth, nineteen hundred ninety-two, the state shall, during continuance of their employment, make contributions at the rate of nine percentum o…

§ 183. Election. 1. Election of the education department optional retirement program. (a) Each eligible employee initially appointed on or after July first, nineteen hundred sixty-eight, shall, within thirty days of his entry into service, elect (i) to join either the New York s…

§ 184. Survivor's benefits. In the case of the death of any electing employee after the effective date of his election and before retirement, the value of the death benefits provided by the contract or contracts continued under the education department optional retirement progra…

§ 185. Social security. Every electing employee shall have old-age, survivors, and disability insurance coverage provided by the federal social security act in accordance with the provisions of article three of the retirement and social security law.

§ 186. State not liable for payment of benefits. Neither the state nor the department shall be a party to any contract continued in whole or in part with contributions made under the education department optional retirement program established and administered pursuant to this p…

§ 187. Inconsistent provisions of other acts superseded. Insofar as the provisions of this part V of this article are inconsistent with the provisions of any other act, general or special, the provisions of this article shall be controlling.

§ 19. Legislative intent. The legislature finds that students' ability\nto learn and to meet high academic standards, and a school's ability to\neducate its students, are compromised by incidents of harassment\nincluding bullying, taunting or intimidation. It is hereby declared …

§ 1901. Central high school districts; number and election of members of board of education. 1. Existing central high school districts are continued. Boards of education of such central high school districts heretofore established shall continue as constituted under the order of…

§ 1902. Other districts may join central high school district. Other school districts that were not included in the establishment of the original central high school district may join such district upon a vote of the majority of the electors of such district present and voting a…

§ 1903. Powers of board of education; laws applicable. 1. The board of education of a central high school district shall have jurisdiction over the pupils residing therein who have completed the work of the sixth grade and shall have the same powers and duties in respect to the …

§ 1905. District treasurer and clerk; custody and disbursement of funds. The board of education of a central high school district shall appoint a treasurer, who shall hold office during the pleasure of the board and shall be subject to the provisions of this chapter relative to …

§ 1906. District meetings; vote upon school taxes. 1. The annual meeting and election of a central high school district shall be held on the third Tuesday in May, provided, however, that such annual meeting and election shall be held on the second Tuesday in May if the commissio…

§ 1907. Transportation of pupils. The board of education of such central high school district may cause transportation to be furnished to the pupils residing in the district who are entitled to attend such central high school or other public or non-public high school within the …

§ 1908. Apportionment of expenses. 1. The board of education of such central high school district shall cause to be apportioned among the school districts included in such central high school district the amount required for the payment of the principal and interest of all oblig…

§ 1909. State aid. 1. Public moneys shall be apportioned to such central high school district on account of the central high school maintained therein, in the same amount and under the same conditions as in the case of apportionments to union free school districts on account of …

§ 1910. Location of site or sites. The board of education of such central high school district shall designate the site or sites for one or more central high school buildings in such district or for any other school purpose by resolution containing a description thereof by metes…

§ 1911. Acquisition of site and erection of building. 1. The board of education of a central high school district shall, when the site of the said high school building shall have been designated as provided herein, submit to the qualified electors of such district a proposition …

§ 1912. Formation of central high school districts in the county of Suffolk. A central high school district may be formed by the combination of two or more central, union free or common school districts in the county of Suffolk. The territory shall be contiguous.

§ 1913. Laying out; referendum procedure. 1. The commissioner is authorized to lay out a central high school district for the establishment and maintenance of instruction for secondary pupils in grades seven through twelve and to fix its boundaries. 2. Within ten days after the …

§ 1914. Board of education; number and election. For any central high school district formed on or after July first, nineteen hundred eighty-one, the order of the commissioner establishing such central high school district shall specify the number of members to constitute the bo…

§ 1915. Facilities; housing of program. 1. The board of education may lease existing buildings within a territory of the central high school district from a component district or, if authorized by the voters of a central high school district, construct, purchase or otherwise acq…

§ 1916. Superintendent status. A central high school district will be considered for eligibility for independent superintendency status under criteria established by the commissioner.

§ 1917. Employees; employment rights. Teachers and other staff members of component districts, except the superintendent of schools, whose services in the component districts are no longer needed because of creation of a central high school district, shall be granted employment …

§ 1917-a. Employees; employment rights; creation of new central high school district. 1. Teachers and other staff members of component districts, except the superintendent of schools, whose services in the component districts are no longer needed because of the creation of a cen…

§ 1950. Establishment of boards of cooperative educational services pending the creation of intermediate districts. 1. The boards of education and school trustees of a supervisory district which is not part of an intermediate district, meeting at a time and place to be designate…

§ 1951. Budget of board of cooperative educational services. 1. The final administrative and capital budgets of the board of cooperative educational services as adopted shall be a charge against all of the school districts contained in the board of cooperative educational servic…

§ 1952. Technologies network ties program. 1. There is hereby established a model technologies network ties program to pilot innovative uses of technology for interactive instruction and administrative purposes, in order to determine the feasibility of developing a statewide tec…

§ 1980. Definitions. When used in this article, the following terms shall mean: 1. The term "board of education" shall mean the trustee, trustees or board of education of any common, union free, central, central high or city school district, or a board of cooperative educational…