Title EDN, Education

§ 3013. Abolition of office or position. 1. If a trustee, board of\ntrustees, board of education or board of cooperative educational\nservices abolishes an office or position and creates another office or\nposition for the performance of duties similar to those performed in the\…

§ 3014. Tenure: boards of cooperative educational services. 1. (a)\nAdministrative assistants, supervisors, teachers and all other members\nof the teaching and supervising staff of the board of cooperative\neducational services appointed prior to July first, two thousand\nfiftee…

§ 3014-a. Teachers' rights as a result of a board or boards of\ncooperative educational services taking over a program formerly operated\nby a school district or districts or by a county vocational education\nand extension board. 1. In any case in which a board or boards of\ncoo…

§ 3014-b. Teachers' rights as a result of a school district taking\nover a program formerly operated by a board of cooperative educational\nservices. 1. In any case in which a school district duly takes over the\noperation of a program formerly provided by a board of cooperative…

§ 3014-c. Teachers' rights as a result of a school district taking\nback tuition students. 1. As used in this section, a "sending district"\nshall mean a school district which previously sent students to another\nschool district on a tuition basis pursuant to section two thousan…

§ 3014-d. Teachers' rights as a result of a school district sending\nstudents to another district on a tuition basis pursuant to section two\nthousand forty of this chapter. 1. As used in this section, a "sending\ndistrict" shall mean a school district which sends students to an…

§ 3015. Teacher's salary when payable. 1. In school districts\nemploying fewer than eight teachers, the salary of any teacher so\nemployed shall be due and payable at least as often as once each\ncalendar month of the term of employment.\n 2. In school districts employing eight …

§ 3016. Contract when teacher is related to trustee or member of\nboard of education. 1. No person who is related to any trustee of a\ncommon school district by blood or marriage shall be employed in such\ndistrict as a teacher, except with the approval of two-thirds of the\nvot…

§ 3017. Individual liability of trustees. Any person employed in\ndisregard of section three thousand eleven or of section three thousand\nsixteen shall have no claim for wages against the district, but may\nenforce the specific contract made against the trustees or board of\ned…

§ 3018. Revocation of certificate by district superintendent. A\ndistrict superintendent shall examine any charge affecting the moral\ncharacter of any teacher within his district, first giving such teacher\nreasonable notice of the charge, and an opportunity to defend himself\n…

§ 3019. Penalty for teacher's failure to complete contract. Any\nfailure on the part of a teacher to complete an agreement to teach a\nterm of school without good reason therefor shall be deemed sufficient\nground for the revocation of the teacher's certificate.\n

§ 3019-a. Notice of termination of service by teachers. A teacher who\ndesires to terminate his services to a school district at any time,\nshall file a written notice thereof with the school authorities of such\nschool district or with the board of cooperative educational servi…

§ 302. How chosen. The commissioner of education shall be elected by\na majority vote of the regents. Residence without the state of New York\nshall not disqualify him from election.\n

§ 3020. Discipline of teachers. 1. No person enjoying the benefits of\ntenure shall be disciplined or removed during a term of employment\nexcept for just cause and in accordance with the procedures specified in\nsection three thousand twenty-a of this article or in accordance w…

§ 3020-a. Disciplinary procedures and penalties. 1. Filing of charges.\nAll charges against a person enjoying the benefits of tenure as provided\nin subdivision three of section eleven hundred two, and sections\ntwenty-five hundred nine, twenty-five hundred seventy-three, twenty…

§ 3021. Removal of superintendents, teachers and employees for\ntreasonable or seditious acts or utterances. A person employed as\nsuperintendent of schools, teacher or employee in the public schools, in\nany city or school district of the state, shall be removed from such\nposi…

§ 3021-a. Notification of accusatory instrument alleging a sex\noffense. 1. For purposes of this section:\n (a) The term "employee" means any person receiving compensation from a\nschool district, charter school, board of cooperation educational\nservices, private elementary or …

§ 3022. Elimination of subversive persons from the public school\nsystem. 1. The board of regents shall adopt, promulgate, and enforce\nrules and regulations for the disqualification or removal of\nsuperintendents of schools, teachers or employees in the public schools\nin any c…

§ 3023. Liability of a board of education, trustee, trustees or board\nof cooperative educational services. Notwithstanding any inconsistent\nprovision of law, general, special or local, or the limitation contained\nin the provisions of any city charter, it shall be the duty of …

§ 3024. Teachers responsible for record books. School lists and\naccounts of attendance shall be kept and prepared and entries shall be\nmade in regards thereto, in such manner, as shall be prescribed by the\ncommissioner of education by regulation or otherwise.\n

§ 3025. Verification of school register. 1. Each teacher, or other\nschool district employee as may be designated by the commissioner of\neducation under section three thousand twenty-four of this chapter,\nshall, by his oath or affirmation verify any information submitted by\ns…

§ 3026. Discriminations based on sex prohibited. There shall be no\ndiscrimination in the determination of the amount to be paid or the\npayments to be made to persons employed as teachers in the public\nschools in any city, union free or common school district in this state,\nb…

§ 3027. Discrimination based on age prohibited. Notwithstanding any\nprovision of law to the contrary, no board of education in any city,\nunion free, common or central school district in this state shall\nhereafter prohibit, prevent, disqualify or discriminate against any\npers…

§ 3028. Liability of school district for cost and attorney's fees of\naction against, or prosecutions of, teachers, members of supervisory and\nadministrative staff or employees, and school volunteers.\nNotwithstanding any inconsistent provision of any general, special or\nlocal…

§ 3028-a. Students under twenty-one years of age suspected of alcohol\nabuse or narcotic addiction. Any teacher, school administrator, school\nguidance counselor, school psychologist, school drug counselor, school\nnurse, supervisor of attendance, attendance teacher or attendanc…

§ 3028-b. Notification of teachers' duty to provide information and\nimmunity from liability. Each school shall annually provide to each\nteacher and all other school officials a written explanation concerning\nthe reporting of pupil drug abuse, child abuse, and child abuse in a…

§ 3028-c. Protection of school employees who report acts of violence\nand weapons possession. Any school employee having reasonable cause to\nsuspect that a person has committed an act of violence while in or on\nschool property, or having reasonable cause to suspect that a pers…

§ 3028-d. Protection of school employees who report information\nregarding illegal or inappropriate financial practices. Any employee of\na school district, board of cooperative educational services, or charter\nschool having reasonable cause to suspect that the fiscal practices…

§ 3029. Hours of continuous duty for full time teachers. Except in a\ncity having a population of one million or more persons the school\nauthorities of any school district employing two or more teachers shall\nfix the hours of duty for full time teachers so that no teacher shal…

§ 3029-a. Silent meditation in public schools. 1. In each public\nschool classroom, the teacher in charge may, or if so authorized or\ndirected by the board of education by which he is employed, shall, at\nthe opening of school upon every school day, conduct a brief period of\ns…

§ 303. Term of office. The commissioner of education shall serve\nduring the pleasure of the board of regents.\n

§ 3030. Interstate agreement on qualifications of educational\npersonnel. 1. The interstate agreement on qualifications of educational\npersonnel is hereby enacted into law and entered into with all\njurisdictions legally joining therein in the form substantially as\nfollows:\n …

§ 3031. Procedure when tenure not to be granted at conclusion of\nprobationary period or when services to be discontinued. Notwithstanding\nany other provision of this chapter: (a) boards of education, trustees\nof common school districts and boards of cooperative educational\ns…

§ 3032. Teacher summer business training and employment program; and\nemployer specific skill training grant program. 1. Definitions. (a)\n"Regions" for the purposes of this section means regions as established\nby the commissioner pursuant to the provisions of the vocational\ne…

§ 3033. New York state mentor teacher-internship program. 1. Boards\nof education and boards of cooperative educational services are hereby\nauthorized to participate in the New York state mentor\nteacher-internship program in accordance with the provisions of this\nsection.\n 2…

§ 3034. Teacher career recruitment clearinghouse. 1. The department,\nin consultation with representatives of teacher organizations, boards of\neducation, school administrators, institutions of higher education and\nthe armed forces of the United States, shall establish a teache…

§ 3035. Duties of commissioner; submission of fingerprints. 1. The\ncommissioner shall submit to the division of criminal justice services\ntwo sets of fingerprints of prospective employees as defined in\nsubdivision three of section eleven hundred twenty-five of this chapter\nr…

§ 3036. Coursework for reporting child abuse and maltreatment for\nthose with coaching licenses or coaching certificates. 1.\nNotwithstanding any other provision of law, the commissioner shall\nprescribe regulations requiring that all persons currently holding a\ntemporary coach…

§ 3037. Grants for hiring teachers. 1. For purposes of this section,\nthe following term shall have the following meaning: "Eligible teacher"\nshall mean an individual that: (a) is certified to teach in New York\nstate pursuant to section three thousand four of this article; or …

§ 3038. The superintendent of each school district, in consultation\nwith the district superintendent of a board of cooperative educational\nservices, where applicable, shall designate an employee who is a member\nof the school district staff or an employee of the board of coope…

§ 304. Expenses. The commissioner shall be paid his necessary\ntraveling and other expenses. However, notwithstanding any law, rule,\nregulation or agreement to the contrary, the commissioner shall not be\nprovided an official residence, nor shall the salary plan for the\npresid…

§ 305. General powers and duties. The commissioner of education is\nhereby charged with the following powers and duties:\n 1. He is the chief executive officer of the state system of education\nand of the board of regents. He shall enforce all general and special\nlaws relating …

§ 306. Removal of school officers; withholding public money. 1.\nWhenever it shall be proved to his satisfaction that any trustee, member\nof a board of education, clerk, collector, treasurer, district\nsuperintendent, superintendent of schools or other school officer is a\nmemb…

§ 307. Acquisition of real property. 1. The commissioner of\neducation, when an appropriation therefor has been made by the\nlegislature, may acquire any real property which he may deem necessary\nfor the purposes of a state educational institution by purchase or\npursuant to th…

§ 308. Other powers. The commissioner of education shall also have\npower and it shall be his duty to cause to be instituted such\nproceedings or processes as may be necessary to properly enforce and\ngive effect to any provision in this chapter or in any other general or\nspeci…

§ 309. Schools of union free school districts and cities. The schools\nof every union free school district and of every city in all their\ndepartments shall be subject to the visitation of the commissioner of\neducation. He is charged with the general supervision of their boards…

§ 309-a. Twenty-first century schools program. 1. Twenty-first century\nschools plans. The commissioner is authorized to designate as\n"twenty-first century schools," schools which are implementing approved\nplans to achieve substantial improvement in student achievement.\nAppli…

§ 310. Appeals or petitions to commissioner of education and other\nproceedings. Any party conceiving himself aggrieved may appeal by\npetition to the commissioner of education who is hereby authorized and\nrequired to examine and decide the same; and the commissioner of\neducat…

§ 3101. Definitions. As used in this article:\n 1. "Teachers" shall mean all full-time members of the teaching and\nsupervisory staff of each school district of the state, including, if\nemployed in such district, the superintendent of schools, associate,\ndistrict or other supe…

§ 3107. In cities having a population of one million or more,\nemployees of the board of education who are members of the New York city\nteachers' retirement system shall be granted sick leave due to personal\nillness. Such sick leave shall be on the basis of at least ten days f…