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2023 New York Laws › EDN - Education › Title 1 - General Provisions › Article 14-A - New York State College Choice Tuition Savings Program › 695-A - Purposes.

§  695-a.  Purposes. The purposes of the tuition savings program shall
  be to authorize the establishment of  family  tuition  accounts  and  to
  provide guidelines for the maintenance of such accounts to:
1. Enable residents of this state and other states to benefit from the
  tax  incentive  provided  for qualified state tuition programs under the
  Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended; and
2. Attract students to public and private  colleges  and  universities
  within the state.
2023 New York Laws › EDN - Education › Title 1 - General Provisions › Article 14-A - New York State College Choice Tuition Savings Program › 695-C - Functions of the Comptroller and the Corporation.

§  695-c.  Functions  of  the comptroller and the corporation.  1. The
  comptroller and the corporation shall implement the  program  under  the
  terms  and  conditions  established  by this article and a memorandum of
  understanding  relating  to  any  terms  or  conditions  not   otherwise
  expressly provided for in this article.
2.   In   furtherance   of   such  implementation  the  memorandum  of
  understanding shall address the  authority  and  responsibility  of  the
  comptroller and the corporation to:
a.  develop  and implement the program in a manner consistent with the
  provisions of this article through rules and regulations established  in
  accordance with the state administrative procedure act;
b.    engage  the  services  of  consultants  on  a contract basis for
  rendering professional and technical assistance and advice;
c.  seek rulings and other guidance from the United States  Department
  of Treasury and the Internal Revenue Service relating to the program;
d.    make changes to the program required for the participants in the
  program to obtain the federal income tax benefits or treatment  provided
  by  section 529 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended, or any
  similar successor legislation;
e.   charge, impose,  and  collect  administrative  fees  and  service
  charges  in  connection  with  any  agreement,  contract  or transaction
  relating to the program;
f. develop marketing plans and promotion material;
g. establish the methods by which the funds held in such  accounts  be
  dispersed;
h.  establish  the method by which funds shall be allocated to pay for
  administrative costs; and
i.  do all things necessary and proper to carry out  the  purposes  of
  this article.
2023 New York Laws › EDN - Education › Title 1 - General Provisions › Article 14-A - New York State College Choice Tuition Savings Program › 695-F - Program Limitations; Family Tuition Account.

§  695-f.  Program  limitations; family tuition account. 1. Nothing in
this article shall be construed to:
a. give any designated beneficiary any rights or legal  interest  with
respect  to  an account unless the designated beneficiary is the account
owner;
b. guarantee that a designated beneficiary  will  be  admitted  to  an
eligible educational institution;
c.  create  state  residency  for  an  individual  merely  because the
individual is a designated beneficiary; or
d. guarantee that amounts  saved  pursuant  to  the  program  will  be
sufficient  to  cover  the  qualified  higher  education  expenses  of a
designated beneficiary.
2. a. Nothing in this article shall create or be construed  to  create
any  obligation  of  the  comptroller,  the  state,  or  any  agency  or
instrumentality of the state to guarantee for the benefit of any account
owner or designated beneficiary with respect to:
(i) the rate of interest or other return on any account; and
(ii) the payment of interest or other return on any account.
b. The comptroller and the corporation by  rule  or  regulation  shall
provide that every contract, application, deposit slip, or other similar
document  that  may  be  used  in  connection  with a contribution to an
account clearly indicate that the account is not insured  by  the  state
and  neither  the  principal  deposited  nor  the  investment  return is
guaranteed by the state.
2023 New York Laws › EDN - Education › Title 1 - General Provisions › Article 14-A - New York State College Choice Tuition Savings Program › 695-G - Scholarships and Financial Aid.

§  695-g.  Scholarships and financial aid.  Monies in a family tuition
  account shall not be used toward  the  calculation  of  New  York  state
  financial aid under a financial aid program administered by the state.
2023 New York Laws › EDN - Education › Title 1 - General Provisions › Article 15 - Text-Books › 702 - Requisites for Change.

§ 702. Requisites  for  change.    1. When a text-book shall have been
  designated for  use  in  a  school  district  or  city  as  provided  in
  subdivision  one of section seven hundred one, it shall not be lawful to
  supersede such text-book by any other book within a period of five years
  from the time of such designation, except upon a three-fourths  vote  of
  the  board of education, trustees or of such body or officer as performs
  the function of such board.
2023 New York Laws › EDN - Education › Title 1 - General Provisions › Article 15 - Text-Books › 704 - Text-Books Containing Seditious or Disloyal Matter.

§ 704. Text-books   containing  seditious  or  disloyal  matter.    No
  text-book in any subject used in the public schools in this state  shall
  contain  any  matter  or  statements  of any kind which are seditious in
  character, disloyal to the United States or favorable to  the  cause  of
  any  foreign  country  with  which the United States may be at war.  The
  commission, consisting of the  commissioner  of  education  and  of  two
  persons  to  be  designated  by  the  regents, whose duty it shall be on
  complaint to examine text-books used in the public schools of the state,
  in the subjects of civics, economics,  English,  history,  language  and
  literature,  for  the  purpose  of  determining  whether such text-books
  contain any matter or statements of any  kind  which  are  seditious  in
  character,  disloyal  to  the United States or favorable to the cause of
  any foreign country with which the United  States  may  be  at  war,  is
  hereby  continued.    Any person may present a written complaint to such
  commission that a text-book in any of the aforesaid subjects for use  in
  the  public  schools  of  this  state or offered for sale for use in the
  public schools of this state contains matter or statements in  violation
  of  this section, specifying such matter or statements in detail. If the
  commission determine that the text-book against which complaint is  made
  contains  any  such  matter  or statements, it shall issue a certificate
  disapproving the use of such text-book in the  public  schools  of  this
  state,  together  with  a  statement of the reasons for its disapproval,
  specifying the matter found unlawful.  Such certificate  of  disapproval
  of  a  text-book,  with  a  detailed  statement  of  the reasons for its
  disapproval, shall be duly forwarded to the boards of education or other
  boards or authorities having jurisdiction of the public schools  of  the
  school   districts  of  this  state,  and  after  the  receipt  of  such
  certificate the use of a text-book so disapproved shall be  discontinued
  in such school district.
Any  contract  hereafter  made by any such board of education or other
  school authorities for the purchase  of  a  text-book  in  any  of  such
  subjects,  which  has  been  so disapproved, shall be void.   Any school
  officer or teacher who permits a text-book  in  any  of  such  subjects,
  which  has  been so disapproved, to be used in the public schools of the
  state, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.
2023 New York Laws › EDN - Education › Title 1 - General Provisions › Article 15 - Text-Books › 705 - Penalty for Violation.

§ 705. Penalty  for  violation.    Any  person  violating  any  of the
  provisions of this article shall be liable to a penalty of not less than
  fifty  dollars  nor  more  than  one  hundred  dollars  for  every  such
  violation,  to  be  sued for by any taxpayer of the school district, and
  recovered before any justice of the peace and when collected, to be paid
  to the collector or treasurer for the benefit of said school district.
2023 New York Laws › EDN - Education › Title 1 - General Provisions › Article 15-A - School Library Materials › 712 - Loan of School Library Materials.

§ 712. Loan of school library materials.  1. In the several cities and
  school  districts  of  the  state, boards of education, trustees or such
  body or officers as perform the function of such boards shall  have  the
  power  and  duty  to  loan  upon  request of an individual or a group of
  individual pupils, to all pupils defined in subdivision three of section
  seven hundred eleven of this article, school library  materials.  School
  library  materials loaned to such pupils attending private schools shall
  be school library materials which are designated for use in  any  public
  elementary  or  secondary  schools  of  the state or are approved by any
  board of education, trustees or other school  authorities.  Such  school
  library materials are to be loaned free to such children subject to such
  rules  and  regulations  as  are  or  may  be prescribed by the board of
  regents  and  such  boards  of  education,  trustees  or  other   school
  authorities.
2.  No  school  district  shall  be  required  to  loan school library
  materials in excess of the school library materials owned or acquired by
  such district pursuant to section seven hundred eleven of this  article.
  Such  school  library materials shall be loaned on an equitable basis to
  children defined in subdivision three of section seven hundred eleven of
  this article attending in the current year. The payment of tuition under
  article eighty-nine of this chapter is deemed to be an equitable loan to
  children for whom such tuition is paid.
2023 New York Laws › EDN - Education › Title 1 - General Provisions › Article 15-C - Textbook Access Act › 720 - Definitions.

§ 720. Definitions. As used in this article, the following terms shall
  have the following meanings:
1.  "Bundled"  means  a  textbook  and  any  other  learning material,
  including,  but  not  limited  to,   workbooks,   online   technologies,
  dictionaries,  CD-ROMS,  or  books, packaged together to be sold for one
  price.
2. "Institution of higher education" means any institution  of  higher
  education,  recognized  and approved by the regents of the university of
  the state of New York, which provides a course of study leading  to  the
  granting of a post-secondary degree or diploma.
3.  "Publisher"  means  any  publishing  house,  publishing  firm,  or
  publishing company that publishes textbooks and supplemental materials.
4. "Textbook" means any textbook that is  adopted  for  a  course,  as
  determined  by  the  faculty  member  or  members or entity charged with
  choosing that textbook.
5.  "Supplemental  materials"  means  materials  that  supplement  the
  primary  textbook  or  textbooks  that come in the form of another book,
  online technologies, a workbook, CD-ROM, or any other format,  and  that
  can  be  used  by a faculty member or a student during the teaching of a
  course.
6. "Adopter" means  any  faculty  member  or  academic  department  at
  institutions of higher learning responsible for considering and choosing
  textbooks  and/or  supplemental  materials  to be utilized in connection
  with the accredited courses taught at institutions of higher education.
2023 New York Laws › EDN - Education › Title 1 - General Provisions › Article 15-C - Textbook Access Act › 721 - Pricing Transparency.

§  721.  Pricing  transparency. 1. To ensure pricing transparency, all
  publishers  of  college  textbooks  shall,  on  request,  make   readily
  available  to  prospective adopters of their products who are members of
  the faculties or purchasing entities of institutions of higher education
  the price at which the publisher would make the  products  available  to
  the college bookstore that would offer the products to students.
2.  For  purposes  of  this  section,  the  term  "products" means all
  versions of a textbook or set of textbooks, except custom  textbooks  or
  special editions of textbooks, available in the subject area for which a
  prospective   adopter  is  teaching  a  course,  including  supplemental
  materials, both when sold together or separately from a textbook.
2023 New York Laws › EDN - Education › Title 1 - General Provisions › Article 15-C - Textbook Access Act › 722 - Sales of Textbooks, Textbook Bundles.

§  722.  Sales of textbooks, textbook bundles. Textbooks shall be sold
  in the same manner as ordered by such faculty member or entity in charge
  of selecting textbooks  for  courses.  In  the  event  such  product  is
  unavailable  as  ordered, the bookstore, faculty, and relevant publisher
  shall work together to provide the best possible  substitute  that  most
  closely  matches  the  requested  item or items, and the publisher shall
  make available the price  of  such  substitute  or  substitutes  readily
  available.
2023 New York Laws › EDN - Education › Title 1 - General Provisions › Article 15-C - Textbook Access Act › 723 - Special Role of Faculties in Adoptions.

§  723.  Special  role  of faculties in adoptions. Each institution of
  higher education shall institute policies that encourage faculty members
  or the entity in charge of textbook adoptions to place their orders with
  sufficient lead-time to  enable  the  university,  or  contract-managed,
  bookstore  to  confirm  the availability of the requested materials and,
  when appropriate,  the  availability  of  used  textbooks  or  alternate
  digital formats.
2023 New York Laws › EDN - Education › Title 1 - General Provisions › Article 15-C - Textbook Access Act › 724 - Policies Addressing Course Material Adoptions and Sample Materials.

§  724.  Policies  addressing  course  material  adoptions  and sample
  materials. No employee at  an  institution  of  higher  education  shall
  demand  or  receive  any  payment,  loan,  advance, goods, or deposit of
  money, present or  promised,  for  adopting  specific  course  materials
  required  for  coursework  or  instruction;  with the exception that the
  employee may receive:
1. sample copies, instructor's copies, or instructional material, that
  are not to be sold;
2. royalties or  other  compensation  from  sales  of  textbooks  that
  include such instructor's own writing or work;
3. honoraria for academic peer review of course materials; or
4. training in the use of course materials and learning technologies.
2023 New York Laws › EDN - Education › Title 1 - General Provisions › Article 16 - Computer Technology › 752 - Loan of Computer Software.

§ 752. Loan of computer software.  1. In the several cities and school
  districts  of  the  state, boards of education, trustees or such body or
  officers as perform the function of such boards shall have the power and
  duty to loan upon request of an individual  or  a  group  of  individual
  pupils,  to  all  pupils  defined  in subdivision three of section seven
  hundred fifty-one of this article, software programs. Software  programs
  loaned  to  such  pupils  attending  private  schools  shall be software
  programs which are designated  for  use  in  any  public  elementary  or
  secondary  schools  of  the  state  or  are  approved  by  any  board of
  education, trustees or other school authorities. Such software  programs
  are  to  be  loaned  free  to  such  children  subject to such rules and
  regulations as are or may be prescribed by the board of regents and such
  boards of education, trustees or other school authorities.
2. No school district shall be required to loan software  programs  in
  excess  of  the  software  programs  owned  or acquired by such district
  pursuant to section  seven  hundred  fifty-one  of  this  article.  Such
  software  programs  shall  be  loaned  on an equitable basis to children
  defined in subdivision three of section seven hundred fifty-one of  this
  article  attending  in  the  current  year. The payment of tuition under
  article eighty-nine of this chapter is deemed to be an equitable loan to
  children for whom such tuition is paid.
2023 New York Laws › EDN - Education › Title 1 - General Provisions › Article 16 - Computer Technology › 754 - Loan of Instructional Computer Hardware.

§  754.  Loan  of  instructional  computer hardware. 1. In the several
  cities and school districts of the state, school authorities, as defined
  in subdivision twelve of section two of this  chapter,  shall  have  the
  power  and  duty,  to the extent provided in this section, to loan, upon
  request of an individual or a group of individual pupils, to all  pupils
  legally  attending  nonpublic elementary or secondary schools located in
  the school district, instructional computer hardware which is designated
  for use in any public elementary or secondary schools of the state or is
  approved by any school authorities. Such instructional computer hardware
  is to be loaned free to such children, commencing with the two  thousand
  seven--two  thousand  eight  school  year,  subject  to  such  rules and
  regulations as are or may be prescribed by the board of regents and such
  school authorities.
2. No school district shall be required to loan instructional computer
  hardware in excess of the instructional computer  hardware  acquired  by
  such  district  pursuant  to  section  seven hundred fifty-three of this
  article. Such instructional computer hardware  shall  be  loaned  on  an
  equitable  basis to children attending nonpublic schools in the district
  in the current year, provided that nothing  in  this  article  shall  be
  construed  to  require  a  school district to loan to children attending
  nonpublic schools, pursuant  to  this  section,  instructional  computer
  hardware purchased with local or federal funds or with state funds other
  than  funds apportioned pursuant to this article. The payment of tuition
  under article eighty-nine of this chapter is deemed to be  an  equitable
  loan  to  children  for whom such tuition is paid, and the provisions of
  this section shall not apply.
3. School authorities shall adopt regulations specifying the  date  by
  which  requests  for  the  purchase  and  loan of instructional computer
  hardware must be received by the district. Notice of such date shall  be
  given  to all non-public schools in the school district. Such date shall
  not be earlier than the first day of June of the school  year  prior  to
  that  for which such instructional computer hardware is being requested,
  provided, however, that a parent or guardian of a child not attending  a
  particular  non-public school prior to June first of the school year may
  submit a written request  for  instructional  computer  hardware  within
  thirty  days  after such child is enrolled in such non-public school. In
  no event, however, shall a request made later than the  times  otherwise
  provided  pursuant  to  this  subdivision  be  denied where a reasonable
  explanation is given for the delay in making the request.
2023 New York Laws › EDN - Education › Title 1 - General Provisions › Article 17 - Instruction in Certain Subjects › 801-A - Instruction in Civility, Citizenship and Character Education.

§ 801-a. Instruction in civility, citizenship and character education.
  The  regents  shall  ensure  that  the  course  of instruction in grades
  kindergarten  through  twelve  includes   a   component   on   civility,
  citizenship  and  character  education.  Such  component  shall instruct
  students   on   the   principles   of   honesty,   tolerance,   personal
  responsibility,  respect  for  others,  with an emphasis on discouraging
  acts of harassment, bullying, discrimination,  observance  of  laws  and
  rules, courtesy, dignity and other traits which will enhance the quality
  of  their  experiences  in,  and  contributions  to, the community. Such
  component shall include instruction of  safe,  responsible  use  of  the
  internet  and electronic communications. The regents shall determine how
  to incorporate such component in existing curricula and the commissioner
  shall promulgate any regulations needed to carry out such  determination
  of  the regents. For the purposes of this section, "tolerance," "respect
  for others" and "dignity" shall include  awareness  and  sensitivity  to
  harassment,  bullying,  discrimination  and civility in the relations of
  people of different races, weights,  national  origins,  ethnic  groups,
  religions,  religious  practices,  mental  or physical abilities, sexual
  orientations, genders, and sexes.
2023 New York Laws › EDN - Education › Title 1 - General Provisions › Article 17 - Instruction in Certain Subjects › 802 - Instruction Relating to the Flag; Holidays.

§  802. Instruction relating to the flag; holidays. 1. It shall be the
  duty of the commissioner to prepare, for the use of the  public  schools
  of  the  state, a program providing for a salute to the flag and a daily
  pledge of allegiance to the flag, and instruction in its correct use and
  display  which  shall  include,  as  a  minimum,  specific   instruction
  regarding  respect  for  the  flag  of the United States of America, its
  display and use as provided by federal statute and regulation  and  such
  other patriotic exercises as may be deemed by him to be expedient, under
  such   regulations   and  instructions  as  may  best  meet  the  varied
  requirements of the different grades  in  such  schools.  However,  such
  instruction  shall include, as a minimum, the provisions of sections one
  hundred seventy through one hundred seventy-seven of title thirty-six of
  the United States Code.
2. a. It shall also be the duty of the commissioner  to  make  special
  provision  for  the  observance  in  the  public  schools  of  Lincoln's
  birthday, Washington's birthday, Memorial day and  Flag  day,  and  such
  other legal holidays of like character as may be hereafter designated by
  law when the legislature makes an appropriation therefor.
b.  It  shall  also  be  the  duty of the commissioner to make special
  provision for the observance of a brief period of silence for  September
  11th Remembrance Day.
3.  Nothing  herein contained shall be construed to authorize military
  instruction or drill in the public schools during school  hours,  except
  that  the  board  of  education  of any school district may offer during
  school hours a junior reserve officer training  program  in  conjunction
  with the United States Department of Defense to those students in grades
  nine through twelve who are at least fourteen years of age provided that
  enrollment and participation in such program is voluntary on the part of
  the  student and written consent of a parent or guardian is submitted by
  such student and further provided, that the conduct of instruction on or
  the presence within any school of any type of current or future weaponry
  as part of such program is prohibited.
2023 New York Laws › EDN - Education › Title 1 - General Provisions › Article 17 - Instruction in Certain Subjects › 802-A - Instruction Relating to General Elections.

§  802-a.  Instruction relating to general elections. Every school and
  teacher or instructor  shall  utilize  a  sample  or  facsimile  ballot,
  provided by the appropriate board of elections pursuant to section 7-118
  of the election law, when providing instruction in the electoral process
  relating to an ongoing general election, for which a sample or facsimile
  ballot has been created, or when holding mock elections.
2023 New York Laws › EDN - Education › Title 1 - General Provisions › Article 17 - Instruction in Certain Subjects › 803-A - Courses of Study in Prevention of Child Abduction.

§ 803-a. Courses  of  study  in prevention of child abduction.  1. All
  pupils in grades K-8 in all public schools in the  state  shall  receive
  instruction   designed  to  prevent  the  abduction  of  children.  Such
  instruction shall be provided by or  under  the  direct  supervision  of
  regular classroom teachers, provided, however, that such instruction may
  be provided by any other agency, public or private.
2.  The  commissioner, shall provide technical assistance to assist in
  the development of curricula for such courses of study  which  shall  be
  age  appropriate  and  developed according to the needs and abilities of
  pupils at successive grade levels in order to provide awareness  skills,
  information,  self-confidence  and  support  to aid in the prevention of
  child abduction.
3. For purposes of developing such courses  of  study,  the  board  of
  education  or  trustees  of  every  school  district may establish local
  advisory councils or utilize the school-based shared decision making and
  planning  committee  established  pursuant   to   regulations   of   the
  commissioner   to   make  recommendations  concerning  the  content  and
  implementation of  such  courses.  School  districts  may  alternatively
  utilize   courses  of  instruction  developed  by  consortia  of  school
  district, boards  of  cooperative  educational  services,  other  school
  districts or any other agency, public or private. Such advisory councils
  shall  consist  of,  but not be limited to, parents, school trustees and
  board members, appropriate  school  personnel,  business  and  community
  representatives,  and law enforcement personnel having experience in the
  prevention of child abduction.
4. The board of education or trustees of every school  district  shall
  provide  appropriate  training  and curriculum materials for the regular
  teachers who provide such instruction.
2023 New York Laws › EDN - Education › Title 1 - General Provisions › Article 17 - Instruction in Certain Subjects › 803-B - Courses of Study in Prevention of Child Sexual Exploitation and Child Sex Abuse.

§  803-b.  Courses of study in prevention of child sexual exploitation
  and child sexual abuse. 1. All  pupils  in  grades  K-8  in  all  public
  schools in the state shall receive instruction designed to prevent child
  sexual  exploitation  and  child  sexual  abuse.  Such  program shall be
  defined by the commissioner in regulations after consultation  with  the
  department  of  health  and be designed to educate students, parents and
  school personnel about the prevention of child sexual  exploitation  and
  child  sexual  abuse  in grades kindergarten through eight. Such program
  shall include, but not be limited to students and  parents.  Nothing  in
  this  section  shall prevent the department from making model curriculum
  and resource materials available on the department's website.
2. The commissioner may provide technical assistance to assist in  the
  development  of  curricula  for such courses of study which shall be age
  appropriate and developed according to the needs and abilities of pupils
  at successive grade  levels  in  order  to  provide  awareness,  skills,
  information,  self-confidence  and  support  to aid in the prevention of
  child sexual exploitation and child sexual abuse.
2023 New York Laws › EDN - Education › Title 1 - General Provisions › Article 17 - Instruction in Certain Subjects › 804-A - Comprehensive School Health Education Demonstration Program.

§ 804-a. Comprehensive  school health education demonstration program.
1.    Within  the  amounts  appropriated,  the  commissioner  is  hereby
authorized  to establish a demonstration program and to distribute state
funds to local  school  districts,  boards  of  cooperative  educational
services  and  in  certain instances community school districts, for the
development, implementation, evaluation, validation,  demonstration  and
replication  of  exemplary  comprehensive  health  education programs to
assist the public schools in developing curricula, training  staff,  and
addressing local health education needs of students, parents, and staff.
2. School districts or BOCES may contract with appropriate agencies or
organizations  to  participate  in  such  program. Such program shall be
limited to health  education  at  the  elementary  level  and  shall  be
designed  on  a  multi-year basis. Such program shall include but not be
limited to the following components:
a.  Developer  grants  for  comprehensive  school   health   education
programs.
(i)  Such  grants  shall  include the development, implementation, and
evaluation of a comprehensive health education  program  including  such
activities as:
(A)  coordination  of health instruction with other available programs
in the school and the community related to health education;
(B) provision of inservice training and materials for elementary level
school teachers in comprehensive health education;
(C) development and implementation of evaluation procedures to measure
students' knowledge, skills, behaviors, and attitudes prior to and after
project implementation; and
(D)  development  and  implementation  of  a  mechanism  for   project
maintenance and long-range programming.
(ii)  Upon  successful  completion  of  the  above  activities and the
availability of funds, such grant recipients  will  assist  other  local
educational agencies with replication.
b.  Health  education  regional  training  centers.  Regional training
centers for the purpose of developing materials and  providing  training
programs  to  meet the needs of teachers statewide in the implementation
of comprehensive school health  education  programs  at  the  elementary
level will be established.
c.  Statewide advocacy for comprehensive health education. Development
and  implementation  of  a  statewide  advocacy  program  to  create  an
awareness  on  the  part of school administrators of the need to develop
strategies  for  implementing  comprehensive  school  health   education
programs at the elementary level.
d.  Replication of validated health education programs. Grants will be
awarded to local school districts or boards of  cooperative  educational
services  for the replication of nationally or state-validated exemplary
health education programs.
2023 New York Laws › EDN - Education › Title 1 - General Provisions › Article 17 - Instruction in Certain Subjects › 804-B - Education Regarding Child Development.

§ 804-b. Education  regarding  child development. 1. All schools shall
  be authorized to include, as an  integral  part  of  home  economics  or
  health  education,  instruction regarding child development and parental
  skills and responsibility.
2. Instruction regarding child development  and  parental  skills  and
  responsibility may be included in the home economics or health education
  provided for all secondary school pupils and shall be taught by teachers
  certified  to  teach home economics or health education. Related courses
  in the secondary school curriculum may be taught in a manner  supportive
  of   home  economics  education  or  health  education  regarding  child
  development and parental skills and responsibility.
3.  The  commissioner  shall  promulgate  rules  and  regulations   to
  establish  a  curriculum for instruction regarding child development and
  parental skills and responsibility for the welfare  of  pupils  and  the
  community  to  be  available  in  school  districts. The contents may be
  varied to meet the needs of particular  school  districts,  or  portions
  thereof,  and  need not be uniform throughout the state; such curriculum
  may include instruction relating to the consequences and  prevention  of
  shaken  baby  syndrome,  which  may  include  the  viewing  of  a  video
  presentation for students in secondary schools.
4. School authorities  shall  be  authorized  to  provide  the  needed
  facilities,  time, and place for the instruction set forth herein and to
  provide learning aids and curriculum resource materials which contribute
  to effective teaching methods and learning in home  economics  education
  or  health education regarding child development and parental skills and
  responsibility.
2023 New York Laws › EDN - Education › Title 1 - General Provisions › Article 17 - Instruction in Certain Subjects › 804-C - Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation Instruction.

§  804-c.  Cardiopulmonary  resuscitation instruction. 1. Instructions
  regarding cardiopulmonary resuscitation may  be  offered  for  voluntary
  admission  as  a  part  of the health education curriculum in all senior
  high schools. In addition to the requirement that all teachers of health
  education shall be certified to teach health, persons instructing pupils
  in cardiopulmonary resuscitation shall possess valid certification by an
  agency offering such certification in the performance of cardiopulmonary
  resuscitation and in its instruction.
2. The commissioner may prescribe regulations  governing  such  health
  education  courses  which  shall  include instruction in cardiopulmonary
  resuscitation. Such regulations shall in no event prescribe a course  of
  study  in  cardiopulmonary  resuscitation which sets forth standards for
  instruction of a lesser quality than the requirements  of  the  programs
  adopted by the American Heart Association or the American Red Cross.
3.  School  authorities that choose to offer such course shall provide
  the needed facilities, time and place  for  the  instruction  set  forth
  herein and shall provide learning aids and curriculum resource materials
  to support such course of study.
2023 New York Laws › EDN - Education › Title 1 - General Provisions › Article 17 - Instruction in Certain Subjects › 804-D - Automated External Defibrillator Instruction.

§  804-d.  Automated  external defibrillator instruction. Instructions
  regarding the correct use of an automated external  defibrillator  shall
  be  included  as a part of the health education curriculum in all senior
  high schools when cardiopulmonary  resuscitation  instruction  is  being
  provided  as authorized by section eight hundred four-c of this article.
  In addition to the requirement that all  teachers  of  health  education
  shall  be  certified  to teach health, persons instructing pupils in the
  correct use of automated external  defibrillators  shall  possess  valid
  certification  by  a  nationally  recognized  organization  or the state
  emergency  medical  services  council  offering  certification  in   the
  operation of an automated external defibrillator and in its instruction.
2023 New York Laws › EDN - Education › Title 1 - General Provisions › Article 17 - Instruction in Certain Subjects › 806-A - Driver Education.

§  806-a.  Driver education. 1. Notwithstanding any other provision of
  law, all school districts  providing  instruction  in  driver  education
  shall include in such instruction: (a) a driver safety component with an
  emphasis  on  the  effects  of  alcohol and drug use, (b) instruction in
  motorcycle safety awareness. The  commissioner,  upon  approval  by  the
  commissioner  of  motor  vehicles,  shall establish a curriculum for the
  alcohol and drug education component which  shall  include  but  not  be
  limited to: instruction describing the hazards of driving while impaired
  or   intoxicated;  the  penalties  for  alcohol  related  motor  vehicle
  violations including sanctions set forth in the penal law that apply  to
  homicides  and  assaults arising out of the operation of a motor vehicle
  while intoxicated and those sanctions  set  forth  in  the  vehicle  and
  traffic  law  relating  to  driving  while intoxicated; and the medical,
  biological and physiological effects of the consumption of  alcohol  and
  their impact on the operation of a motor vehicle.
2.  The  commissioner,  upon  approval  of  the  commissioner of motor
  vehicles, shall establish  by  regulation  a  certification  process  by
  driver education courses of the amount of time a holder of a class DJ or
  class  MJ  learner's  permit  has  spent operating a motor vehicle while
  under the  immediate  supervision  of  a  driver  education  teacher.  A
  certificate  issued  pursuant  to this subdivision shall be deemed to be
  proof of all or a portion of the supervised driving experience  required
  under  certification  pursuant  to  paragraph  (d) of subdivision two of
  section five hundred two of the vehicle and traffic law.
2023 New York Laws › EDN - Education › Title 1 - General Provisions › Article 17 - Instruction in Certain Subjects › 807-C - Transmission of Fire Alarm to Fire Department.

§ 807-c. Transmission  of fire alarm to fire department. 1. The school
  authorities designated in subdivision eight  of  section  eight  hundred
  seven-a  of this article in charge of the operation of any public school
  or of any private school designated in subdivision nine of such section,
  located in an area within which a fire department  or  fire  company  is
  responsible   for   fire   protection  and  within  which  there  is  no
  electrically or electronically  operated  fire  alarm  reporting  system
  provided  for  public  use  may  cause  the  internal  fire  alarm, fire
  detection, or fire extinguishing system of each  building  in  which  is
  contained  classroom,  dormitory, laboratory, physical education, dining
  or recreational facilities for student use to be interconnected with the
  fire alarm reporting location or system which is provided for such  fire
  department  or  fire  company  to receive alarms from the public so that
  upon activation of such internal fire alarm,  fire  detection,  or  fire
  extinguishing  system a signal will be automatically transmitted to such
  fire alarm reporting location or system.
2. School authorities and the governing body  having  jurisdiction  of
  any  fire department or fire company are hereby authorized, by agreement
  between them, to apportion the costs of installing and  maintaining  any
  such  interconnection,  and  such  costs  are  hereby deemed appropriate
  expenditures from the funds of such  school  authorities  and  governing
  bodies.
2023 New York Laws › EDN - Education › Title 1 - General Provisions › Article 17 - Instruction in Certain Subjects › 807-D - Locating Source of Fires in Schools.

§ 807-d. Locating  source  of  fires  in schools. 1. In all public and
  private school buildings having a  central  annunciator  panel  or  fire
  alarm  cabinet  which  displays  a  visual  signal  identifying any heat
  detector, smoke detector, or manually operated fire alarm box within the
  building which has been activated, there shall be provided as a part  of
  or immediately adjacent to such panel or cabinet a chart or plan showing
  the specific location within the building of each such device.
2.  In  the  case of school buildings and additions to existing school
  buildings, the construction of which is commenced after September first,
  nineteen hundred seventy-three, any such panel or cabinet and such chart
  or plan within such building or addition shall be so  located  that  the
  same may be read without entering the building.
2023 New York Laws › EDN - Education › Title 1 - General Provisions › Article 17 - Instruction in Certain Subjects › 808 - Instruction in Fire and Arson Prevention.

§ 808. Instruction  in  fire and arson prevention. 1. The commissioner
  is hereby directed to provide and prescribe a course of  instruction  in
  fire  and  arson prevention, injury prevention and life safety education
  relating to the protection against injury or  death  and  protection  of
  property  against  loss or damage as a result of criminally initiated or
  other preventable fire,  for  use  in  the  schools  of  the  state,  as
  prescribed  by  this  section.  Such course of instruction shall include
  materials to educate children on the  dangers  of  falsely  reporting  a
  criminal  incident,  an  impending explosion or fire emergency involving
  danger to life or property, an impending catastrophe, or a  life  safety
  emergency.
2.  The  board  of  education,  trustees, principal or other person in
  charge of every public, private and parochial school in the state  shall
  arrange  for giving such course of instruction in every school under its
  or his control or direction. Such instruction shall be given to  all  of
  the pupils in every such school for a period of not less than forty-five
  minutes in each month during which such school is in session.
2023 New York Laws › EDN - Education › Title 1 - General Provisions › Article 17 - Instruction in Certain Subjects › 809-A - Instruction in the Safe Use of Firearms and in the Game Laws.

§ 809-a. Instruction in the safe use of firearms and in the game laws.
  The  officer,  board,  or commission authorized or required to prescribe
  courses of instructions in any school under state control, may authorize
  instructions to be given in the safe and proper use of firearms  allowed
  by  law  to  be  used in the taking of wild game, and may also authorize
  instructions to be given in the study of game laws and of proper hunting
  and conservation practices.    Such  courses  of  instruction  shall  be
  approved  by  both  the  education  department  and  the  department  of
  environmental conservation.
2023 New York Laws › EDN - Education › Title 1 - General Provisions › Article 17 - Instruction in Certain Subjects › 810 - Conservation Day.

§ 810. Conservation  day.    1.  The last Friday in April each year is
  hereby made and declared to be known as Conservation day,  and  observed
  in  accordance  with the provisions of this chapter, except that for the
  year nineteen hundred  seventy-eight,  Conservation  day  shall  be  May
  third.
2.  It  shall be the duty of the authorities of every public school in
  this state to assemble the pupils in their charge on  that  day  in  the
  school  building,  or elsewhere, as they may deem proper, and to provide
  for and conduct (1) such  exercises  as  shall  tend  to  encourage  the
  planting,  protection  and  preservation  of  trees  and  shrubs, and an
  acquaintance with the best methods to  be  adopted  to  accomplish  such
  results,  and  (2)  such  lectures,  pictures or tours, as shall tend to
  increase the interest and knowledge of such pupils in the fish and  wild
  life, soil and water of the state.
3.  The  commissioner  of  education may prescribe from time to time a
  course  of  exercises  and  instruction  in  the  subjects  hereinbefore
  mentioned,  which  shall  be  adopted  and observed by the public school
  authorities on Conservation day. Upon receipt of copies of  such  course
  sufficient  in number to supply all the schools under their supervision,
  the school authorities aforesaid shall  promptly  provide  each  of  the
  schools under their charge with a copy, and cause it to be observed.
2023 New York Laws › EDN - Education › Title 1 - General Provisions › Article 17 - Instruction in Certain Subjects › 811 - Procurement, Use and Possession of Hypodermic Syringes and Needles by School Personnel for Educational Purposes.

§ 811. Procurement,  use  and  possession  of  hypodermic syringes and
  needles  by   school   personnel   for   educational   purposes.      1.
  Notwithstanding  the  provisions  of section 220.45 of the penal law, it
  shall be lawful for authorized persons under  the  jurisdiction  of  the
  public  school authorities in a public school; or of the state education
  department;  or  of  the  governing  board  of  any  other   educational
  institution, the curriculum of which is registered by the department, to
  purchase,  acquire,  have  under  control,  possess  and  use hypodermic
  syringes and needles for instructional  or  other  educational  purposes
  provided  such  school authorities in the case of a school district, the
  appropriate superior officer in the case  of  the  department,  or  such
  governing  board  in  the case of other institutions, has filed with the
  commissioner of education and with the  state  department  of  health  a
  certificate  of  need  for such hypodermic needles which shall set forth
  the following:
a. The legal designation and address of  the  school  district,  if  a
  public  school or if another school or institution, the name and address
  thereof, and the exact  location  where  such  hypodermic  syringes  and
  needles will be used and stored.
b.  The  name  and  address of the chief administrative officer of the
  school or institution.
c. The use proposed to be made of such hypodermic needles.
d. The names of persons employed in the  school,  the  department,  or
  other  institution  authorized  to  have  custody  and/or  use  of  such
  hypodermic needles.
e. The safeguards to be taken to prevent such instruments from falling
  into the hands of unauthorized persons.
f. The disposition which will be made of unwanted or  broken  syringes
  and  needles.  In  the  case of the department such certificate shall be
  made and filed by the assistant commissioner under whose supervision the
  work involving the use of such hypodermic syringes or needles  is  done,
  and  a  duplicate  thereof  shall  be filed with the state department of
  health.
2. Nothing contained in this section shall be construed to require the
  filing of such names by medical institutions, including but not  limited
  to,  public health centers, industrial clinics, diagnostic, treatment or
  research centers,  rehabilitation  facilities,  nursing  homes,  medical
  schools  or  colleges,  tuberculosis,  mental, chronic disease and other
  types  of  hospitals,  clinical  laboratories,  outpatient  departments,
  nurses  training  facilities  and central service facilities operated in
  conjunction with medical institutions.
3. The commissioner,  after  consultation  with  the  commissioner  of
  health, shall make regulations for the administration of this section.
2023 New York Laws › EDN - Education › Title 1 - General Provisions › Article 17 - Instruction in Certain Subjects › 812 - Health Training Program for Secondary School Students.

§ 812. Health  training program for secondary school students.  1. The
  commissioner, in cooperation with the board of  regents,  is  authorized
  and  directed  to  establish  and develop a program of credit for health
  training for those secondary school students evidencing an  interest  to
  pursue  a health care services career. Such program may be instituted by
  any school district seeking to provide  its  secondary  school  students
  with  an  opportunity to participate in a health care facility or agency
  training program wherein its secondary  school  students  shall  receive
  academic  credit  for  work  related  training  received  at health care
  facilities or agencies.
2. The board of regents shall establish criteria to be used by  school
  districts  participating  in  such program for the selection of eligible
  secondary school students seeking placement in a health training program
  subject to availability of placement openings.