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NY Educ L § 111 (2021)
2021 New York Laws EDN - Education Title 1 - General Provisions Article 3 - Education Department Part 1 - General Provisions 111 - Indian Affairs.

§ 111. Indian  affairs.    The education department, by or through the   appropriate division, bureau or  officer  thereof,  shall  exercise  and   perform  the functions, powers and duties conferred or imposed by law in   relation to the education of children upon the Indian reservations.
NY Educ L § 113 (2021)
2021 New York Laws EDN - Education Title 1 - General Provisions Article 3 - Education Department Part 1 - General Provisions 113 - Leaves of Absence to Professional Members of the Department.

§ 113. Leaves  of  absence  to professional members of the department.   The department, subject to such  regulations  as  the  commissioner  may   promulgate,  may  grant  any  professional  member  of  the staff of the   department an extended leave of absence for  advanced  study,  research,   professional  writing  or  other  experience  of recognized professional   value, for not to exceed one year in seven at the rate of not to  exceed   one-half  the  regular salary paid, or for not to exceed six months with   salary  at  full  rate  for  such  leave.    The  balance  of   salaries   appropriated  for  such persons, or so much thereof as may be necessary,   may be applied during the period of such absence for the purpose of  the   salaries  of substitutes to take the place of the persons thus on leave.   Not more than five such leaves of absence shall be  granted  during  any   one fiscal year.
NY Educ L § 174 (2021)
2021 New York Laws EDN - Education Title 1 - General Provisions Article 3 - Education Department Part 4 - Scientific and Historic Places 174 - Powers Formerly Exercised by the State Board of Geographic Names.

§ 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  etymological  form of the place names in this state and   recommend the adoption of such correct forms for public use.2. Determine the form and propriety of new place  names  proposed  for   general use, and no corporation, individual or community shall introduce   such new place names without the consent and approval of this board.3.  Co-operate  with  the  United States board of geographic names and   with the United States post-office department in establishing a  proper,   correct  and  historically accurate form for all place names proposed as   designations of new post-offices.4. No petition or recommendation for the naming of any mountain, lake,   river or other natural object for or in honor of any living person shall   be granted, approved or consented to by the regents of the university or   by the committee on geographic names appointed by it except by unanimous   vote.
NY Educ L § 180 (2021)
2021 New York Laws EDN - Education Title 1 - General Provisions Article 3 - Education Department Part 5 - Education Department Optional Retirement Program 180 - Definitions.

§ 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 of supervision of higher education, and who, at  the  time  of   his  initial  employment  with  the  department or within one year prior   thereto, owns or  owned  a  contract  which  may  legally  be  continued   pursuant  to  this  part.  An  eligible  employee  who has elected to be   covered by the education department optional  retirement  program  shall   not be deemed ineligible by virtue of a subsequent assignment within the   education  department to a sphere of responsibility outside of the field   of supervision of higher education. No  person  receiving  a  retirement   benefit  from  any retirement or pension system of New York state or any   political subdivision thereof shall be eligible to elect  the  education   department optional retirement program.2.  The  term "education department optional retirement program" means   the retirement program established pursuant to part V of this article.3. The term  "electing  employee"  means  any  eligible  employee  who   exercises  his  election  pursuant  to  this  part  V of this article to   participate in the education department optional retirement program.4. The term "state salary" means all amounts paid by or for the  state   as compensation for services rendered by an eligible employee.5.  The  term  "insurer"  means a life insurance corporation, or other   corporation, subject to department of financial services supervision.
NY Educ L § 181 (2021)
2021 New York Laws EDN - Education Title 1 - General Provisions Article 3 - Education Department Part 5 - Education Department Optional Retirement Program 181 - Education Department Optional Retirement Program Established.

§ 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   employees.   Under such program  the  state  and  such  employees  shall   contribute,   to   the   extent  authorized  or  required,  towards  the   continuation of such contracts, which shall  have  been  issued  to  and   shall have previously become the property of such employees.2. The commissioner shall, in his discretion, designate the insurer or   insurers  to  which payment of such contributions under this article may   be made and shall approve the form and content of such  contracts.    In   making  such designation and giving such approval the commissioner shall   give due consideration to (i) the nature and extent of  the  rights  and   benefits  to  be  provided  by such contracts for electing employees and   their beneficiaries, (ii) the relation of such rights  and  benefits  to   the  amount  of  contributions  to  be  made  under  this part V of this   article, (iii) the suitability of such rights and benefits to the  needs   and  interests  of  electing  employees  and  to  the  interests  of the   department in the employment and retention of  eligible  employees,  and   (iv)  the authority and ability of the designated insurer or insurers to   provide rights and benefits under such contracts.3.  The  commissioner  is  hereby  authorized  to  provide   for   the   administration  of such education department optional retirement program   and to perform or authorize the performance of such functions as may  be   necessary  for  such  purposes  in  accordance  with this part V of this   article.
NY Educ L § 184 (2021)
2021 New York Laws EDN - Education Title 1 - General Provisions Article 3 - Education Department Part 5 - Education Department Optional Retirement Program 184 - Survivor's Benefits.

§ 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 program   which is attributable to the state's contribution as determined  by  the   commissioner,  shall  be deemed to be an ordinary death benefit provided   under a public pension plan within the meaning of  section  one  hundred   fifty-four of the civil service law.
NY Educ L § 185 (2021)
2021 New York Laws EDN - Education Title 1 - General Provisions Article 3 - Education Department Part 5 - Education Department Optional Retirement Program 185 - Social Security.

§ 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.
NY Educ L § 186 (2021)
2021 New York Laws EDN - Education Title 1 - General Provisions Article 3 - Education Department Part 5 - Education Department Optional Retirement Program 186 - State Not Liable for Payment of Benefits.

§ 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  part  V  of this article.   No retirement, death or other benefits   shall be payable by the state or by the department under such  education   department  optional retirement program, except as otherwise provided in   section 184.  Such benefits shall be paid to electing employees or their   beneficiaries by the designated insurer or insurers in  accordance  with   the terms of their contracts.
NY Educ L § 187 (2021)
2021 New York Laws EDN - Education Title 1 - General Provisions Article 3 - Education Department Part 5 - Education Department Optional Retirement Program 187 - Inconsistent Provisions of Other Acts Superseded.

§ 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.
NY Educ L § 201 (2021)
2021 New York Laws EDN - Education Title 1 - General Provisions Article 5 - University of the State of New York Part 1 - General Organization 201 - Corporate Name and Objects.

§ 201. Corporate name and objects. The corporation created in the year   seventeen  hundred  eighty-four  under  the  name  of The Regents of the   University of the State of New York, is hereby continued under the  name   of  The  University  of  the  State of New York. Its objects shall be to   encourage and promote  education,  to  visit  and  inspect  its  several   institutions  and  departments, to distribute to or expand or administer   for them such property and funds as the state may  appropriate  therefor   or  as  the  university  may  own  or hold in trust or otherwise, and to   perform  such  other  duties  as  may  be  intrusted  to  it.  The  said   corporation  shall  have  power  to  take,  hold and administer real and   personal property and the income thereof in trust for  any  educational,   scientific,  historical  or other purpose within the jurisdiction of the   regents of The University of the State of New York.
NY Educ L § 203 (2021)
2021 New York Laws EDN - Education Title 1 - General Provisions Article 5 - University of the State of New York Part 1 - General Organization 203 - Officers.

§ 203. Officers.    The elective officers of the university shall be a   chancellor and a vice-chancellor who shall  serve  without  salary,  and   such  other officers as are deemed necessary by the regents, all of whom   shall be chosen by ballot by the regents and shall  hold  office  during   their  pleasure;  but  no  election,  removal  or change of salary of an   elective officer shall be made by less than six votes in favor  thereof.   Each  regent  and  each  elective  officer shall, before entering on his   duties, take and file with the secretary of state  the  oath  of  office   required of state officers.The  chancellor  shall preside at all convocations and at all meetings   of the regents, and confer all degrees which they shall authorize.    In   his  absence  or inability to act, the vice-chancellor, or if he be also   absent, the senior regent present, shall perform all the duties and have   all the powers of the chancellor.
NY Educ L § 205 (2021)
2021 New York Laws EDN - Education Title 1 - General Provisions Article 5 - University of the State of New York Part 1 - General Organization 205 - Quorum.

§ 205. Quorum.    Seven  regents  attending  shall be a quorum for the   transaction of business.
NY Educ L § 206 (2021)
2021 New York Laws EDN - Education Title 1 - General Provisions Article 5 - University of the State of New York Part 1 - General Organization 206 - Authority to Take Testimony and Conduct Hearings.

§ 206. Authority to take testimony and conduct hearings.  The regents,   any committee thereof, the commissioner of education, the deputy and any   associate and assistant commissioner of education and the counsel of the   department  may take testimony or hear proofs relating to their official   duties, or in any matter which they may lawfully investigate.   Hearings   by  the regents pursuant to any of the provisions of this chapter may be   given by or before not less than three members of the regents designated   by the regents or by the chancellor  of  the  university  to  hold  such   hearings, but any decision or determination in such proceedings shall be   made by the regents.
NY Educ L § 207 (2021)
2021 New York Laws EDN - Education Title 1 - General Provisions Article 5 - University of the State of New York Part 1 - General Organization 207 - Legislative Power.

§ 207. Legislative   power.      Subject  and  in  conformity  to  the   constitution  and  laws  of  the  state,  the  regents  shall   exercise   legislative  functions  concerning  the educational system of the state,   determine its educational policies, and,  except,  as  to  the  judicial   functions of the commissioner of education, establish rules for carrying   into  effect  the laws and policies of the state, relating to education,   and the functions, powers, duties and trusts conferred or  charged  upon   the  university  and  the education department.  But no enactment of the   regents shall modify in any degree the freedom of the governing body  of   any  seminary  for the training of priests or clergymen to determine and   regulate the  entire  course  of  religious,  doctrinal  or  theological   instruction to be given in such institution.  No rule by which more than   a  majority  vote  shall  be  required  for  any specified action by the   regents shall be amended, suspended or repealed by a smaller  vote  than   that   required  for  action  thereunder.    Rules  or  regulations,  or   amendments or repeals thereof, adopted or prescribed by the commissioner   of education as provided by law shall not be effective unless and  until   approved  by  the  regents,  except  where authority is conferred by the   regents upon the commissioner of education to adopt, prescribe, amend or   repeal such rules or regulations.
NY Educ L § 208 (2021)
2021 New York Laws EDN - Education Title 1 - General Provisions Article 5 - University of the State of New York Part 1 - General Organization 208 - General Examinations, Credentials and Degrees.

§ 208. General examinations, credentials and degrees.  The regents may   confer  by  diploma  under  their seal such honorary degrees as they may   deem proper,  and  may  establish  examinations  as  to  attainments  in   learning,  and  may award and confer suitable certificates, diplomas and   degrees on persons who satisfactorily meet the requirements prescribed.
NY Educ L § 208-A (2021)
2021 New York Laws EDN - Education Title 1 - General Provisions Article 5 - University of the State of New York Part 1 - General Organization 208-A - Scheduling of Examinations.

§  208-a. Scheduling of examinations. The department shall make a bona   fide effort to schedule state mandated examinations on days  other  than   days   of   religious   observation.  The  commissioner  may  promulgate   regulations to implement this section.
NY Educ L § 209 (2021)
2021 New York Laws EDN - Education Title 1 - General Provisions Article 5 - University of the State of New York Part 1 - General Organization 209 - Academic Examinations; Admission and Fees.

§ 209. Academic  examinations;  admission and fees.  The regents shall   establish in the secondary institutions of the university,  examinations   in studies furnishing a suitable standard of graduation therefrom and of   admission  to  colleges, and certificates or diplomas shall be conferred   by the regents on students who satisfactorily pass such examinations.Any person shall be admitted to these examinations who  shall  conform   to the rules and pay the fees prescribed by the regents.
NY Educ L § 209-A (2021)
2021 New York Laws EDN - Education Title 1 - General Provisions Article 5 - University of the State of New York Part 1 - General Organization 209-A - Applications for Admission to College.

§ 209-a.   Applications for admission to college.  Notwithstanding any   other provision of this chapter to the contrary, no rule  or  regulation   shall  be adopted by the school authorities, school officers or board of   education of a school district which limits the number of  requests  for   the  processing  of  college  applications  that may be submitted by the   pupils in a secondary school under their or its jurisdiction.    Nothing   contained  in  this  section  shall  prohibit school authorities, school   officers or boards of education from establishing rules of procedure for   the submission of such requests.
NY Educ L § 210 (2021)
2021 New York Laws EDN - Education Title 1 - General Provisions Article 5 - University of the State of New York Part 1 - General Organization 210 - Registrations.

§ 210. Registrations.    The regents may register domestic and foreign   institutions in terms of New  York  standards,  and  fix  the  value  of   degrees,  diplomas  and  certificates  issued  by  institutions of other   states or countries and presented for entrance to schools, colleges  and   the professions in this state.
NY Educ L § 210-A (2021)
2021 New York Laws EDN - Education Title 1 - General Provisions Article 5 - University of the State of New York Part 1 - General Organization 210-A - Admission Requirements for Graduate-Level Teacher and Educational Leader Programs.

§   210-a.  Admission  requirements  for  graduate-level  teacher  and   educational  leader  programs.  Each  institution  registered   by   the   department  with  graduate-level  teacher  and leader education programs   shall  adopt  rigorous  selection  criteria  geared  to   predicting   a   candidate's  academic  success in its program, including but not limited   to, achievement of a cumulative grade point average of 3.0 or higher  in   the  candidate's  undergraduate  program.  Each program may exempt up to   fifty percent of any incoming class  of  students  from  such  selection   criteria set forth in this section based on a student's demonstration of   potential  to  positively contribute to the teaching profession or other   extenuating  circumstances  pursuant   to   the   regulations   of   the   commissioner.  A  program  shall  report to the department the number of   students admitted pursuant to such exemption and the selection  criteria   used for such exemptions.
NY Educ L § 211 (2021)
2021 New York Laws EDN - Education Title 1 - General Provisions Article 5 - University of the State of New York Part 1 - General Organization 211 - Review of Regents Learning Standards.

§  211.  Review  of  regents  learning standards. 1. The regents shall   periodically review and evaluate the existing regents learning standards   to determine if they should be strengthened, modified or combined so  as   to  provide  adequate opportunity for students to acquire the skills and   knowledge they need to succeed in employment or postsecondary  education   and  to function productively as civic participants upon graduation from   high school. Such review  and  evaluation  shall  be  conducted  upon  a   schedule  adopted  by the regents, provided that a review and evaluation   of the English language arts standards shall be  completed  as  soon  as   possible,  but  no  later  than  the  end of the two thousand seven--two   thousand eight school year.2.  In  conducting  such  reviews,  the   regents   shall   seek   the   recommendations  of  teachers,  school administrators, teacher educators   and others with educational expertise on improvements to  the  standards   so   that  they  ensure  that  students  are  prepared,  in  appropriate   progression, for post-secondary education or employment.
NY Educ L § 211-A (2021)
2021 New York Laws EDN - Education Title 1 - General Provisions Article 5 - University of the State of New York Part 1 - General Organization 211-A - Enhanced State Accountability System.

§ 211-a. Enhanced state accountability system. To more fully implement   the  requirements  of  section  one  thousand  one hundred eleven of the   elementary and secondary education act of nineteen  hundred  sixty-five,   as  amended,  and the federal regulations implementing such statute, the   regents shall develop and implement  an  enhanced  state  accountability   system that uses growth measures to the extent required by this section.1.  By  the  start of the two thousand eight--two thousand nine school   year, the regents shall establish, using existing state assessments,  an   interim,  modified  accountability system for schools and districts that   is based on a growth model, subject to approval  of  the  United  States   department of education where required under federal law.2.  The  regents  shall  proceed  with  the development of an enhanced   accountability system, with revised or new state assessments,  based  on   an  enhanced  growth  model  that, to the extent feasible and consistent   with federal law, includes a value-added assessment model that employs a   scale-score approach to measure growth of students at all levels. (a) If   the regents establish that the  assessment  scaling  and  accountability   methodology  employed  have  been  determined  by  external  experts  in   educational testing and measurement to be  valid  and  reliable  and  in   accordance  with established standards for educational and psychological   testing, and (b)  the  approval  of  the  United  States  department  of   education  has been obtained where required by federal law, the enhanced   growth model shall be implemented no later than the  start  of  the  two   thousand ten--two thousand eleven school year.3.  In implementing the provisions of subdivisions one and two of this   section, the regents shall by July first, two thousand eight,  establish   targets  for  improvement  of  schools  and  school districts based upon   performance on state assessments, graduation rates, and other indicators   of progress, such as student retention rates and college attendance  and   completion rates.4.  As  used  in  this  chapter,  the  following  words shall have the   following meanings:a. "Growth model" shall mean the assessment of a cohort  of  students,   or  individual  students,  over time that measures the academic progress   made by those students.b. "Value added assessment model" shall mean a form  of  growth  model   that  includes  an  evaluation  of the specific effects of programs, and   other relevant factors, on the academic progress of individual  students   over time.