2023 New York Laws › EDN - Education › Title 1 - General Provisions › Article 17 - Instruction in Certain Subjects › 803 - Instruction in Physical Education and Kindred Subjects.

§ 803. Instruction in physical education and kindred subjects.  1. All
  pupils  above  the  age  of  eight years in all elementary and secondary
  schools, shall receive as part of the prescribed courses of  instruction
  therein  such physical education under the direction of the commissioner
  of education as  the  regents  may  determine.  Such  courses  shall  be
  designed  to  aid  in  the  well-rounded  education of pupils and in the
  development of character, citizenship, physical fitness, health and  the
  worthy  use  of  leisure.  Pupils  above  such  age attending the public
  schools shall be required to attend  upon  such  prescribed  courses  of
  instruction.
2.  The  board  of  education  or  trustees  of  every school district
  regularly employing twenty or more teachers shall employ  a  teacher  or
  teachers  qualified  and  duly  licensed  under  the  regulations of the
  regents to give such instruction; in every other district of the  state,
  they  shall  require  such  instruction  to  be  given by the teacher or
  teachers regularly employed to give instruction in other subjects or  by
  a  teacher or teachers qualified and duly licensed under the regulations
  of the regents.
3. The boards of education or  trustees  of  two  or  more  contiguous
  districts  in  the  same  supervisory district, however, may join in the
  employment  of  a  teacher  qualified  and  duly  licensed   under   the
  regulations  of  the regents to give such instruction; and the salary of
  such teacher and the expenses incurred on account  of  such  instruction
  shall be apportioned by the district superintendent among such districts
  according to the assessed valuation thereof, and as so apportioned shall
  be a charge upon each of such districts.
4.  Similar  courses of instruction shall be prescribed and maintained
  in private schools in the state and all  pupils  in  such  schools  over
  eight  years  of age shall attend upon such courses; and if such courses
  are not so established and maintained in any private school,  attendance
  upon  instruction  in  such  school  shall  not  be deemed substantially
  equivalent to instruction given to children of like ages in  the  public
  school or schools of the city or district in which the child resides.
5.  It shall be the duty of the regents to adopt rules determining the
  subjects to be included in courses of physical education provided for in
  this section, the period of instruction in each  of  such  courses,  the
  qualifications  of  teachers,  and  the  attendance upon such courses of
  instruction.
6. The physical education hereinbefore provided  for,  may  be  given,
  when practicable, in any armory of the state where such armory is within
  convenient  distance  from  the  school,  and  at such times and in such
  manner as not to interfere  with  the  regular  military  uses  of  such
  armory.  The commanding officer in charge of any such armory shall, upon
  application made by any board of education or trustees  of  the  several
  cities  and school districts within the state, permit access to any such
  armory, for the purposes herein mentioned.