Title EDN, Education

§ 3230. School district meetings and activities. 1. The board of education or trustees of each school district shall ensure that at any meeting or activity which is conducted by the board of education, trustees, school district or a district school which is specific to a child's…

§ 3232. Courts having jurisdiction. 1. Courts sitting as courts of special sessions or as magistrates' courts shall have concurrent jurisdiction with family courts to hear, try and determine charges of violation of the provisions of part one of this article, within their respect…

§ 3233. Penalties. Except as otherwise provided, a violation of part one of this article shall be punishable for the first offense by a fine not exceeding ten dollars or ten days' imprisonment; for each subsequent offense by a fine not exceeding fifty dollars, or by imprisonment…

§ 3234. Enforcement; withholding state moneys by commissioner of education. 1. The commissioner of education shall supervise the enforcement of part one of this article and he may withhold one-half of all public school moneys from any city or district, which, in his judgment, wi…

§ 3240. School census in the cities of New York, Buffalo and Rochester. In the cities of New York, Buffalo and Rochester provision shall be made by the board of education for taking a school census in connection with the work of enforcing part one of this article.

§ 3241. School census in cities, except in cities having a population of one hundred twenty-five thousand or more. 1. The board of education of each city, except in cities having a population of one hundred twenty-five thousand or more, shall constitute a permanent census board …

§ 3242. School census in school districts. The trustees or board of education of every school district may cause a census to be taken of all children between birth and eighteen years of age, including all such facts and information as are required in the census provided for in s…

§ 3243. Penalty for withholding information. A parent, guardian or other person having under his control or charge a child between birth and eighteen years of age who withholds or refuses to give information in his possession relating to such child and required under part two of…

§ 3244. Education of children in foster care. 1. Definitions. For\npurposes of this section only, the following definitions shall apply:\n a. Child or youth in foster care. For the purposes of this article,\nthe term "child or youth in foster care" shall mean a child who is in\n…

§ 3300. Short title. This article shall be known and may be cited as the "interstate compact on educational opportunity for military children".

§ 3301. Purpose. It is the purpose of this compact to remove barriers to educational success imposed on children of military families because of frequent moves and deployment of their parents by: 1. Facilitating the timely enrollment of children of military families and ensuring…

§ 3302. Definitions. As used in this compact, unless the context clearly requires a different meaning: 1. "Active duty" means full-time duty status in the active uniformed service of the United States, including members of the National Guard and Reserve on active duty orders pur…

§ 3303. Applicability. 1. Except as otherwise provided in subdivision two of this section, this compact shall apply to the children of: (a) active duty members of the uniformed services as defined in this compact, including members of the National Guard and Reserve on active dut…

§ 3304. Educational records and enrollment. 1. In the event that official education records cannot be released to the parents for the purpose of transfer, the custodian of the records in the sending state shall prepare and furnish to the parent a complete set of unofficial educa…

§ 3304-a. Advance enrollment. A student whose parent or guardian is being relocated to the state under military orders and is transferred or is pending transfer to a military installation within the state shall be deemed to be a resident pupil of a school district for the purpos…

§ 3305. Placement and attendance. 1. When the student transfers before or during the school year, the receiving state school shall initially honor placement of the student in educational courses based on the student's enrollment in the sending state school and/or educational ass…

§ 3306. Eligibility. 1. (a) When properly executed under applicable law, a special power of attorney, relative to the guardianship of a military child, shall be considered sufficient for the sole purpose of establishing residency of a transferring student into a local educationa…

§ 3307. Graduation. In order to facilitate the on-time graduation of children of military families, states and local educational agencies shall incorporate the following procedures: 1. Local educational agency administrative officials shall waive specific courses required for gr…

§ 3308. State coordination. 1. Each member state shall, through the creation of a state council or use of an existing body or board, provide for the coordination among its agencies of government, local educational agencies and military installations concerning the state's partic…

§ 3309. Interstate commission on educational opportunity for military children. The member states hereby create the "interstate commission on educational opportunity for military children". The activities of the interstate commission are the formation of public policy and are a …

§ 3310. Powers and duties of the interstate commission. The interstate commission shall have the following powers: 1. To provide for dispute resolution among member states. 2. To promulgate rules and take all necessary actions to effect the goals, purposes and obligations as enu…

§ 3311. Organization and operation of the interstate commission. 1. The interstate commission shall, by a majority of the members present and voting, within twelve months after the first interstate commission meeting, adopt bylaws to govern its conduct as may be necessary or app…

§ 3312. Rulemaking functions of the interstate commission. 1. The interstate commission shall promulgate reasonable rules in order to effectively and efficiently achieve the purposes of this compact. Notwithstanding the foregoing, in the event the interstate commission exercises…

§ 3313. Oversight, enforcement, and dispute resolution. 1. (a) All courts shall take judicial notice of the compact and the rules in any judicial or administrative proceeding in a member state pertaining to the subject matter of this compact which may affect the powers, responsi…

§ 3314. Financing of the interstate commission. 1. The interstate commission shall pay, or provide for the payment of the reasonable expenses of its establishment, organization and ongoing activities. 2. The interstate commission may levy on and collect an annual assessment from…

§ 3315. Member states, effective date and amendment. 1. Any state is eligible to become a member state. 2. The compact shall become effective and binding upon legislative enactment of the compact into law by no less than ten of the states. Thereafter it shall become effective an…

§ 3316. Withdrawal and dissolution. 1. Once effective, the compact shall continue in force and remain binding upon each and every member state; provided that a member state may withdraw from the compact by specifically repealing the statute, which enacted the compact into law. 2…

§ 3317. Severability and construction. 1. The provisions of this compact shall be severable, and if any phrase, clause, sentence or provision is deemed unenforceable, the remaining provisions of the compact shall be enforceable. 2. The provisions of this compact shall be liberal…

§ 3318. Binding effect of compact and other laws. 1. All agreements between the interstate commission and the member states are binding in accordance with their terms. 2. In the event any provision of this compact exceeds the constitutional limits imposed on the legislature of a…

§ 340. Definitions. As used in this article: 1. "Standardized test" or "test" means any test that is given in New York at the expense of the test subject and designed for use and used in the process of selection for post-secondary or professional school admissions. Such tests sh…

§ 341. Background reports. 1. Whenever any test agency prepares or causes to have prepared research which is used in any study, evaluation or statistical report pertaining to a test operational after January first, nineteen hundred eighty, such study, evaluation or report shall …

§ 341-a. Standardized testing; reports. 1. Definitions. As used in this section and section three hundred forty-six-a of this article, the following words and terms shall have the following meanings: a. "Test" means a standardized test as defined in section three hundred forty o…

§ 342. Disclosure of test contents. 1. Within thirty days after the\nresults of any standardized test are released, the test agency shall\nfile or cause to be filed with the commissioner:\n a. a copy of all test questions used in calculating the test subject's\nraw score;\n b. t…

§ 342-a. Special administrations. 1. When regular test administrations are given on days of religious observance which prevent attendance by test subjects at such regular administrations special administrations shall be offered with the same frequency as regular administrations …

§ 343. Notice. 1. Each test agency shall provide, along with the registration form or score report for a test, the following information: a. the purposes for which the test is constructed and is intended to be used; b. statements designed to provide information for interpreting …

§ 344. Disclosure of test scores. The score of any test subject shall not be released or disclosed by the test agency to any person, organization, corporation, association, college, university, or governmental agency or subdivision unless specifically authorized by the test subj…

§ 344-a. Pretest questions. The test agency shall cooperate with a study conducted under the auspices of the National Research Council of the effects of pretesting on test subjects' performance. The results of such study shall be made available to the chair of the higher educati…

§ 344-b. Due process. Each test agency shall ensure due process protection of test subjects whose scores are being questioned for suspected inauthenticity or irregularity in test administration. 1. When a test agency is presented with information which renders the test subject's…

§ 344-c. Additional test subject rights. A test subject who must retake a test because of an error by the test agency, may not be charged for taking the retest.

§ 345. Regulations. The commissioner shall promulgate regulations to implement the provisions of this article.

§ 346. Test subject review of computerized test. Beginning in the test year two thousand, a test agency which administered a computerized test in test year nineteen hundred ninety-four shall offer test subjects who take a computerized test a process whereby test subjects are aff…

§ 346-a. Advisory committee. 1. There shall be created a temporary committee to advise the legislature and make findings and recommendations with respect to the effect of standardized tests used in the process of post secondary admissions on test subjects of varying racial, ethn…

§ 347. Violations. Any test agency which violates any section of this article shall be liable for a civil penalty of not more than one thousand dollars for each violation.

§ 348. Severability. If any provision of this article shall be declared unconstitutional or invalid, the other provisions shall remain in effect notwithstanding.

§ 350. Definitions. As used in this article, unless the context shall\notherwise require, the following terms shall mean:\n 1. "State university." The state university created by this article.\n 2. "Community colleges." Colleges established and operated pursuant to\nthe provisio…

§ 351. State university mission. The mission of the state university system shall be to provide to the people of New York educational services of the highest quality, with the broadest possible access, fully representative of all segments of the population in a complete range of…

§ 352. State university of New York established. 1. There is hereby created in the state education department and within the university of the state of New York as established under the board of regents a corporation to be known as the state university of New York which shall be…

§ 352-a. Maritime college; admissions program. 1. There shall be created an admissions program for the state university of New York maritime college as established pursuant to section three hundred fifty-two of this article in which certain elected officials shall nominate stude…

§ 353. State university trustees. 1. The state university shall be governed, and all of its corporate powers exercised, by a board of trustees. Such board shall consist of eighteen members, fifteen of whom shall be appointed by the governor with the advice and consent of the sen…

§ 354. Powers and duties of state university trustees-planning functions. 1. The state university trustees shall, once every four years, formulate a long-range state university plan or general revision thereof and make recommendations to the board of regents and the governor for…