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2023 New York Laws › EDN - Education › Title 1 - General Provisions › Article 5 - University of the State of New York › Part 2 - Libraries › 270 - Acceptance of Surplus Library Books or Property.

§ 270. Acceptance  of  surplus  library books or property.   The state
  education department is hereby authorized to cooperate with  the  United
  States  commissioner of education, the war assets administration, and/or
  other federal officers  and  officials  in  the  administration  of  any
  statute  heretofore  or  hereafter  enacted  for the disposal of surplus
  library books or property, and to accept for and on behalf of the  state
  of New York or its political subdivisions surplus library books or other
  property  suitable  and  necessary  to  the operation of public and free
  libraries and Indian libraries and for the improvement and extension  of
  library  service  for  New  York state, and any funds, which may be made
  available to the state of New York by the federal government  for  these
  and related public and Indian library services.
2023 New York Laws › EDN - Education › Title 1 - General Provisions › Article 5 - University of the State of New York › Part 2 - Libraries › 271 - Apportionment of State Aid to Indian Libraries.

§ 271. Apportionment  of  state  aid  to  Indian libraries. Any Indian
  library chartered by the regents or in the absence of such  library  any
  tribal   government   contracting  for  service  from  a  chartered  and
  registered library or approved library  system,  shall  be  entitled  to
  receive  state aid during each calendar year consisting of the following
  amounts:
1. Eighteen thousand dollars, and
2. The sum of eighteen dollars and twenty cents per capita for persons
  residing on the reservation served by the Indian library or contract  as
  shown  by  the  latest federal census or certified by the New York state
  director of Indian services, and
3. The sum of one dollar and fifty cents per acre of  area  served  by
  the Indian library or contract.
Such  sums  shall  be  paid  annually  to  the Indian library board of
  trustees for the use of the Indian library, or in the absence of such  a
  board,  to  the  tribal  government  for a contract for library service.
  Nothing contained in this section shall be  construed  to  diminish  the
  funds,  services or supplies provided to any Indian library by a library
  system as defined in section two hundred seventy-two  of  this  article.
  Increases  in  appropriations  for  such purposes during a calendar year
  shall be pro rated.
2023 New York Laws › EDN - Education › Title 1 - General Provisions › Article 5 - University of the State of New York › Part 2 - Libraries › 274 - Use and Care of School Library.

§ 274. Use  and care of school library.  The school library shall be a
  part of the school equipment and shall be kept in the school building at
  all times. Such library shall be devoted to the  exclusive  use  of  the
  school, except as otherwise provided by the rules of the commissioner of
  education  and  except  in a district where there is no free library, in
  which case such school library shall be a circulating  library  for  the
  use of the residents of the district.
The commissioner of education shall prescribe rules regulating
1. The purchase, recording, safekeeping and loaning of books in school
  libraries,  and  the  use  of  such  books by pupils and teachers in the
  public schools.
2. The conditions under which books in a school library may be used by
  the public in a district in which a free library is situated.
3. The management of school libraries and  their  use  as  circulating
  libraries by the residents of the district in which they are situated.
4.  The  contents  and  submission  of  reports  of school librarians,
  teachers and other school authorities as to school libraries.
2023 New York Laws › EDN - Education › Title 1 - General Provisions › Article 5 - University of the State of New York › Part 2 - Libraries › 275 - Librarians of School Libraries.

§ 275. Librarians   of   school  libraries.    In  a  school  district
  maintaining an academic department or high school the board of education
  may employ, and fix the compensation of,  a  person  to  act  as  school
  librarian  who  may  be  engaged  for  all  or  a  part  of  the time in
  performance of the duties of the position as may be directed by the said
  board.  The person so employed, who may be the  librarian  of  the  free
  library,  shall  be  possessed  of  the qualifications prescribed by the
  commissioner of education.  In all other districts the trustees or board
  of education may appoint a competent person to act  as  librarian.    In
  case of a failure of a city or union free school district maintaining an
  academic  department  or  high  school  to  employ  a librarian as above
  provided, the teacher of English in such school shall be the  librarian.
  In  case  of a failure to appoint a librarian in any other district, the
  teacher, or if there be more than one  teacher  the  principal  teacher,
  shall act as librarian.  The trustees or board of education shall report
  to  the  commissioner  of  education  the name and address of the person
  employed or appointed as librarian.
2023 New York Laws › EDN - Education › Title 1 - General Provisions › Article 5 - University of the State of New York › Part 2 - Libraries › 276 - Existing Rules Continued in Force.

§ 276. Existing  rules continued in force.  All existing provisions of
  law and rules established by  the  commissioner  of  education  for  the
  management  of  public  school  libraries  shall  hold  good  as  to the
  management of such school libraries until altered by or in pursuance  of
  law.
2023 New York Laws › EDN - Education › Title 1 - General Provisions › Article 5 - University of the State of New York › Part 2 - Libraries › 277 - Authority to Raise and Receive Money for School Library.

§ 277. Authority  to raise and receive money for school library.  Each
  city and school district in the state  is  hereby  authorized  to  raise
  moneys  by  tax in the same manner as other school moneys are raised, or
  to receive moneys by gift or devise, for starting, extending  or  caring
  for the school library.
2023 New York Laws › EDN - Education › Title 1 - General Provisions › Article 5 - University of the State of New York › Part 2 - Libraries › 278 - Authority to Transfer School Library Property to a Free Library.

§ 278. Authority  to  transfer  school  library  property  to  a  free
  library.   The board of education in  any  city  or  union  free  school
  district  or  the  electors  of  any  other district, by legal vote duly
  approved by the regents, may give to any free library any of  the  books
  or  other  public  school  library  property not required in such school
  library, provided such free library is registered  by  the  regents  and
  situated  in  such  city or district; and the school authorities or body
  making the transfer shall thereafter be relieved of  all  responsibility
  pertaining to the property so transferred.
2023 New York Laws › EDN - Education › Title 1 - General Provisions › Article 5 - University of the State of New York › Part 2 - Libraries › 280 - Penalty for Disobedience to Library Law, Rules or Orders.

§ 280. Penalty  for disobedience to library law, rules or orders.  The
  commissioner of education is hereby authorized to withhold its share  of
  public school moneys from any city or district which uses school library
  moneys  for  any other purpose than that for which they are provided, or
  for any wilful neglect or disobedience of the law or the rules or orders
  of said commissioner in the premises.
2023 New York Laws › EDN - Education › Title 1 - General Provisions › Article 5 - University of the State of New York › Part 2 - Libraries › 281 - Loans and Extensions of Credit to Infants.

§ 281. Loans and extensions of credit to infants. A contract hereafter
  made  by  an  infant  after  he has attained the age of sixteen years in
  relation to obtaining a loan or extension of credit from an  institution
  of  the  university  of  the  state  of New York in connection with such
  infant's attendance  upon  a  course  of  instruction  offered  by  such
  institution,  or  from  a  bank, trust company or national bank having a
  principal, branch or trust office in  this  state  for  the  purpose  of
  defraying  all  or a portion of the expenses of such infant's attendance
  upon a course of instruction in an institution of the university of  the
  state  of New York or any other institution for higher education without
  this state which is a member of or accredited by an  accrediting  agency
  recognized  by  the  department,  may  not  be disaffirmed by him on the
  ground of infancy.
2023 New York Laws › EDN - Education › Title 1 - General Provisions › Article 5 - University of the State of New York › Part 2 - Libraries › 282 - Establishment of School Library Systems.

§ 282. Establishment  of  school library systems.  The commissioner is
  authorized to approve the establishment of school library systems,  each
  system  to  be  composed  of school districts which are located within a
  board of cooperative educational services area,  or  a  school  district
  serving  a city with a population of one hundred twenty-five thousand or
  more, or combinations thereof. The systems may include non-public school
  libraries  as  defined  in  regulations  to  be   promulgated   by   the
  commissioner.  Upon  establishment, such school library systems shall be
  governed by either their respective boards  of  cooperative  educational
  services, by boards of education in school districts serving cities with
  populations  of  one  hundred  twenty-five  thousand  or  more,  or by a
  governing body established  under  the  plan  to  be  submitted  to  the
  commissioner in cases of systems serving a combination of areas.
2023 New York Laws › EDN - Education › Title 1 - General Provisions › Article 5 - University of the State of New York › Part 2 - Libraries › 283 - Functions of School Library Systems.

§ 283. Functions  of  school library systems.  The functions of school
  library systems shall include but not be limited to:  (a)  creating  and
  developing  a  union  catalog of materials listing the resources of each
  participating school library; (b) developing a plan which will aid  each
  participating  school library in cooperative collection development; (c)
  adopting and implementing an interlibrary loan policy and program  among
  participating  school  libraries;  (d)  assuring  a  method of effective
  delivery  of  library  materials  within  the  system;   (e)   promoting
  development programs and continuing education for staff of participating
  schools;  (f)  encouraging  awareness  of  the  resources  and  services
  available in participating school libraries; and  (g)  cooperating  with
  other library systems in resource sharing and other activities.
2023 New York Laws › EDN - Education › Title 1 - General Provisions › Article 5 - University of the State of New York › Part 2 - Libraries › 285 - State Aid for Cooperation With Correctional Facilities.

§ 285. State aid for cooperation with correctional facilities. 1. Each
  public  library system operating under an approved plan of service which
  has a state correctional facility  or  facilities  within  its  area  of
  service  shall  be  awarded  an annual grant of nine dollars twenty-five
  cents per capita for the  incarcerated  individual  population  of  such
  facility  or facilities to make available to the incarcerated individual
  population of such facility or facilities, in direct  coordination  with
  the  correctional  facilities  libraries,  the library resources of such
  system. The commissioner shall adopt any regulations necessary to  carry
  out the purposes and provisions of this subdivision.
2.  The  commissioner  is  authorized  to  expend  up  to  one hundred
  seventy-five thousand dollars  annually  to  provide  grants  to  public
  library  systems  operating  under  an  approved  plan  of  service  for
  provision of services to county jail  facilities.  Such  formula  grants
  shall  assist the library system in making available to the incarcerated
  individual  population  of  such  facility  or  facilities  the  library
  resources  of such system. Such grants shall be available to each public
  library system in such manner as to insure that the ratio of the  amount
  each  system  is  eligible  to receive equals the ratio of the number of
  incarcerated individuals served by the county jail facility to the total
  number of incarcerated individuals served by county jail  facilities  in
  the  state  as  of July first of the year preceding the calendar year in
  which  the  state  aid  to  public  library  systems  is  to  be   paid.
  Incarcerated  individual  populations shall be certified by the New York
  state  commission  of  correction.  The  commissioner  shall  adopt  any
  regulations  necessary  to carry out the purposes and provisions of this
  subdivision.
2023 New York Laws › EDN - Education › Title 1 - General Provisions › Article 5 - University of the State of New York › Part 3 - Federal Funds for Vocational Education › 290 - Acceptance of Law of the United States.

§ 290. Acceptance  of  law of the United States. The state of New York
  hereby accepts all of the provisions and the benefits of an  act  passed
  by  the  senate  and  house  of  representatives of the United States of
  America, in congress assembled, entitled "An  act  to  provide  for  the
  promotion  of  vocational education; to provide for cooperation with the
  states in the promotion of such education in agriculture and the  trades
  and  industries;  to  provide  for  co-operation  with the states in the
  preparation of teachers of vocational subjects; and to appropriate money
  and regulate its expenditure," approved February twenty-third,  nineteen
  hundred seventeen.
2023 New York Laws › EDN - Education › Title 1 - General Provisions › Article 5 - University of the State of New York › Part 3 - Federal Funds for Vocational Education › 291 - Custodian of Funds.

§ 291. Custodian  of  funds.    The state commissioner of taxation and
  finance and the state comptroller are hereby constituted  and  appointed
  the  joint  custodians  of  the moneys paid to the state of New York for
  vocational education, under the provisions of such act, and such  moneys
  shall  be  paid  out in the manner provided by such act for the purposes
  therein specified.
2023 New York Laws › EDN - Education › Title 1 - General Provisions › Article 5 - University of the State of New York › Part 3 - Federal Funds for Vocational Education › 292 - Board of Regents to Co-Operate With Federal Board.

§ 292. Board of regents to co-operate with federal board.  The regents
  of  The University of the State of New York are hereby designated as the
  state board for the purpose of carrying into effect  the  provisions  of
  such  act, and are hereby authorized and directed to co-operate with the
  federal  board  of  vocational  education  in  the  administration   and
  enforcement  of  its  provisions,  and to perform such official acts and
  exercise such powers as may be necessary to entitle the state to receive
  its benefits.
2023 New York Laws › EDN - Education › Title 1 - General Provisions › Article 6 - Enacted Without Article Heading. › 293 - Establishment of Interstate Library District.

§ 293. Establishment  of  interstate  library  district.   One or more
  incorporated public libraries of this state, by majority action  of  the
  board  of trustees thereof, may enter into an agreement with one or more
  public library agencies in another state or states  which  have  adopted
  the  interstate  library  compact  for  the  purpose of establishing and
  maintaining an interstate library district.   For the purposes  of  this
  act, a cooperative library system established under article five of this
  chapter shall be deemed to be a public library.
2023 New York Laws › EDN - Education › Title 1 - General Provisions › Article 6 - Enacted Without Article Heading. › 294 - Appointment of Members of Governing Board of Interstate Library District.

§ 294. Appointment of members of governing board of interstate library
district.
(a) The board of trustees of each public library which is a
party to  an  agreement  establishing  an  interstate  library  district
pursuant  to  section  two  hundred  ninety-three of this article, shall
appoint a member or members to represent such library on  the  governing
board  of  such  interstate  library  district.    The  number  of  such
representatives shall be determined by the agreement  establishing  such
interstate library district.
(b) The governing board of such interstate library district shall be a
body corporate.
(c)  Such  governing  board  shall  administer such interstate library
district as provided in this act.
2023 New York Laws › EDN - Education › Title 1 - General Provisions › Article 6 - Enacted Without Article Heading. › 295 - Support of Interstate Library District.

§ 295. Support  of  interstate library district.  Any library, library
  system, county, city, village, town or school district of this state may
  provide funds, including funds received from local  taxation  for  state
  aid  for  the  support  and  operation of an interstate library district
  established as provided herein, in accordance  with  the  terms  of  the
  agreement  establishing  the  same provided that such agreement together
  with the plan of library service thereunder has  been  approved  by  the
  commissioner.
2023 New York Laws › EDN - Education › Title 1 - General Provisions › Article 6 - Enacted Without Article Heading. › 297 - Withdrawal.

§ 297. Withdrawal.  The commissioner of education is hereby designated
  as  the  official  who  is  authorized  to  send and receive the notices
  provided in article eleven of the compact in the event of withdrawal  of
  this state or any other state from the compact.
2023 New York Laws › EDN - Education › Title 1 - General Provisions › Article 7 - Commissioner of Education › 301 - Commissioner of Education Continued.

§ 301. Commissioner   of   education   continued.      The  office  of
  commissioner of education is hereby continued. Subject  to  the  general
  direction  and  control  of  the  regents  of  the  university, he shall
  continue to have, exercise and perform the functions, powers and  duties
  conferred or imposed by law upon the commissioner of education. He shall
  continue  to  exercise  the judicial functions conferred by law upon the
  commissioner of education and, subject to rules of the regents, to make,
  execute and issue in the name of  the  department  such  determinations,
  decisions,  orders,  notices and certificates as may be required for the
  exercise and performance of the functions, powers and  duties  conferred
  or  imposed  upon  the  department.  With  the  approval of the board of
  regents, he shall continue to prepare the annual estimates and  requests
  for  appropriations  for  operation, maintenance and construction of the
  New York state school for the blind.   All moneys appropriated  for  the
  New  York  school  for  the  blind, or derived from other sources in the
  course of the administration thereof, shall be  expended  upon  vouchers
  approved  by  the  commissioner  of  education,  when  and in the manner
  authorized by  the  board  of  regents.  The  regents  may  adopt  rules
  conferring   and  imposing  upon  the  commissioner  of  education  such
  additional powers and duties  as  may  be  required  for  the  effective
  administration of the department and of the state system of education.
2023 New York Laws › EDN - Education › Title 1 - General Provisions › Article 7 - Commissioner of Education › 304 - Expenses.

§ 304. Expenses.    The  commissioner  shall  be  paid  his  necessary
  traveling and other expenses. However, notwithstanding  any  law,  rule,
  regulation  or  agreement to the contrary, the commissioner shall not be
  provided an official residence,  nor  shall  the  salary  plan  for  the
  president  of  the  university  of the state of New York, as provided in
  subdivision three of section one hundred  sixty-nine  of  the  executive
  law,  make  provision for an official residence. The commissioner of the
  office of general services is authorized to sell at  fair  market  value
  any  official  residence formerly provided to the commissioner or to the
  president of the university of the state of New York,  as  well  as  all
  state-owned  appurtenances  associated with such residence. The proceeds
  from such sale shall be deposited to the credit of the general fund.
2023 New York Laws › EDN - Education › Title 1 - General Provisions › Article 7 - Commissioner of Education › 306 - Removal of School Officers; Withholding Public Money.

§ 306. Removal  of  school  officers;  withholding  public money.   1.
  Whenever it shall be proved to his satisfaction that any trustee, member
  of  a  board  of  education,  clerk,  collector,   treasurer,   district
  superintendent,  superintendent  of schools or other school officer is a
  member of an organization listed as subversive by the board  of  regents
  pursuant  to the provisions of section three thousand twenty-two of this
  chapter, or has been guilty of any wilful violation or neglect  of  duty
  under  this  chapter,  or  any other act pertaining to common schools or
  other educational institution participating in state funds, or  wilfully
  disobeying  any decision, order, rule or regulation of the regents or of
  the commissioner of education, said commissioner,  after  a  hearing  at
  which  the  school  officer  shall  have  the right of representation by
  counsel, may, by an order under his hand and seal, which order shall  be
  recorded in his office, remove such school officer from his office.
2.  Said commissioner of education may also withhold from any district
  or city its share  of  the  public  money  of  the  state  for  wilfully
  disobeying  any provision of law or any decision, order or regulation as
  aforesaid.
2023 New York Laws › EDN - Education › Title 1 - General Provisions › Article 7 - Commissioner of Education › 308 - Other Powers.

§ 308. Other  powers.    The commissioner of education shall also have
  power and  it  shall  be  his  duty  to  cause  to  be  instituted  such
  proceedings  or  processes  as  may be necessary to properly enforce and
  give effect to any provision in this chapter or in any other general  or
  special  law  pertaining  to  the school system of the state or any part
  thereof or to any school district or city.  He shall possess  the  power
  and authority to likewise enforce any rule or direction of the regents.
2023 New York Laws › EDN - Education › Title 1 - General Provisions › Article 7 - Commissioner of Education › 309 - Schools of Union Free School Districts and Cities.

§ 309. Schools of union free school districts and cities.  The schools
  of  every  union  free  school  district  and of every city in all their
  departments shall be subject to the visitation of  the  commissioner  of
  education.    He is charged with the general supervision of their boards
  of education and their management and  conduct  of  all  departments  of
  instruction.
2023 New York Laws › EDN - Education › Title 1 - General Provisions › Article 7 - Commissioner of Education › 310 - Appeals or Petitions to Commissioner of Education and Other Proceedings.

§ 310. Appeals  or  petitions  to  commissioner of education and other
  proceedings.   Any party conceiving  himself  aggrieved  may  appeal  by
  petition  to  the commissioner of education who is hereby authorized and
  required to examine  and  decide  the  same;  and  the  commissioner  of
  education  may  also  institute such proceedings as are authorized under
  this article. The petition may be made in consequence of any action:
1. By any school district meeting.
2. By any district superintendent and other officers,  in  forming  or
  altering,  or  refusing  to  form  or  alter, any school district, or in
  refusing to apportion any school moneys to any such district or part  of
  a district.
3.  By  a  county treasurer or other distributing agent in refusing to
  pay any such moneys to any such district.
4. By the trustees of any district in paying or refusing  to  pay  any
  teacher,  or  in  refusing  to  admit  any scholar gratuitously into any
  school or on any other matter upon which they may or do officially act.
5. By any trustees of any school library concerning such  library,  or
  the books therein, or the use of such books.
6.  By  any  district  meeting in relation to the library or any other
  matter pertaining to the affairs of the district.
6-a. By a principal, teacher, owner or other person in charge  of  any
  school in denying a child admission to, or continued attendance at, such
  school  for  lack  of proof of required immunizations in accordance with
  section twenty-one hundred sixty-four of the public health law.
7. By any other official  act  or  decision  of  any  officer,  school
  authorities, or meetings concerning any other matter under this chapter,
  or any other act pertaining to common schools.
2023 New York Laws › EDN - Education › Title 1 - General Provisions › Article 7 - Commissioner of Education › 311 - Powers of Commissioner Upon Appeals or Petitions, Et Cetera.

§ 311. Powers  of  commissioner  upon appeals or petitions, et cetera.
  The  commissioner,  in  reference  to   such   appeals,   petitions   or
  proceedings, shall have power:
1. To regulate the practice therein.
2.  To  determine  whether  an  appeal  shall  stay  proceedings,  and
  prescribe conditions upon which it shall or shall not so operate.
3. To decline to entertain or to dismiss  an  appeal,  when  it  shall
  appear  that  the appellant has no interest in the matter appealed from,
  and that the matter is not a matter of  public  concern,  and  that  the
  person  injuriously  affected  by  the  act or decision appealed from is
  incompetent to appeal.
4. To make all orders, by directing the levying of taxes or otherwise,
  which may, in his judgment, be proper or necessary to give effect to his
  decision.
2023 New York Laws › EDN - Education › Title 1 - General Provisions › Article 7 - Commissioner of Education › 312 - Filed Papers and Copies Thereof.

§ 312. Filed  papers and copies thereof.  The commissioner shall file,
  arrange in the order of time, and keep in his office, so that  they  may
  be  at  all  times  accessible,  all  the proceedings on every appeal or
  petition to him under this article, including his  decision  and  orders
  founded  thereon;  and  copies  of  all  such  papers  and  proceedings,
  authenticated by him under his seal of office, shall be evidence equally
  with the originals.
2023 New York Laws › EDN - Education › Title 1 - General Provisions › Article 7 - Commissioner of Education › 313-A - Prohibition Against the Use of Certain Material in Questionnaires and Applications for Admission to Educational Institutions.

§ 313-a. Prohibition   against   the   use   of  certain  material  in
  questionnaires   and   applications   for   admission   to   educational
  institutions.   No   application   for   admission  to  any  educational
  institution in the  state  of  New  York  shall  contain  any  questions
  requiring  the  involuntary  disclosure  of  the  marital  status of the
  parents of those applying for admission.
2023 New York Laws › EDN - Education › Title 1 - General Provisions › Article 7 - Commissioner of Education › 315 - School District Names.

§ 315. School  district names. Each school district, other than a city
  school  district,  shall,  in   accordance   with   the   commissioner's
  regulations,  adopt a simplified name as the legal name of the district.
  Such name shall be submitted to the commissioner for prior approval  and
  when such name shall be adopted it shall be filed with the commissioner.
  The  name  of a central school district established or reorganized by an
  order of the commissioner pursuant to section eighteen  hundred  one  of
  this  chapter may be changed by the board of education of such district,
  with the prior approval of the commissioner, upon a written  request  by
  the  board  of  education  filed  with  the  commissioner not later than
  fourteen days prior to the date of the establishment  or  reorganization
  of   the  district  and  in  accordance  with  the  regulations  of  the
  commissioner.  The  education  department  shall  issue,   on   request,
  certificates  certifying  the  name of the district and the names of the
  towns and counties in which the territory of the district is located, or
  in the case of school districts other than city school districts,  which
  are wholly or partly located within a city, the names of the city, towns
  and counties in which the territory of the district is located.
2023 New York Laws › EDN - Education › Title 1 - General Provisions › Article 7-A - Standardized Testing › 340 - Definitions.

§ 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 shall
  include, but are not limited to,  the  Preliminary  Scholastic  Aptitude
  Test,   Scholastic   Aptitude  Test,  ACT  Assessment,  Graduate  Record
  Examination, Medical College Admission Test, Law School Admission  Test,
  Dental  Admission  Testing  Program, Graduate Management Admission Test,
  Miller Analogies Test and the Test for Standard  Written  English.  This
  article  shall  not  apply to any state, federal, or local civil service
  test, any test used solely for placement, credit-by-examination or other
  nonadmission purpose or  any  test  developed  and  administered  by  an
  individual  school  or  institution  solely  for its own purposes or any
  test, or portion of a test, designed to evaluate manual skills or  other
  physical abilities.
2.  "Commissioner" means the commissioner of education of the state of
  New York.
3. "Test subject" means an individual to whom a test is administered.
4. "Test agency" means  any  organization,  association,  corporation,
  partnership,   or  individual  or  person  that  develops,  sponsors  or
  administers a test.
5. "Part"  means  each  portion  of  a  test  for  which  a  score  is
  calculated.
6. "Test form" means the test booklet or instrument used for each part
  of each test.
7.  "Pretest  question"  means any question or group of questions on a
  test not used to calculate the reported scores of a  test  subject,  nor
  used to equate scores for that test.
8.  "Test  year"  means  the  twelve-month period commencing September
  first during which the test agency administers a particular test.
9. "Computerized test"  means  any  test  form  administered  to  test
  subjects by means of a computer.
2023 New York Laws › EDN - Education › Title 1 - General Provisions › Article 7-A - Standardized Testing › 341 - Background Reports.

§ 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
  be  filed  with  the  commissioner.  This  section  shall  apply  to any
  unpublished study, evaluation or statistical report cited  in  memoranda
  of   support   or  opposition  to  legislation  or  proposed  rules  and
  regulations relating to standardized testing   written or  published  by
  the  test  agency  or  its  employees in behalf of the test agency on or
  after July first, nineteen hundred ninety-three.
2. If any reports  or  other  documents  submitted  pursuant  to  this
  section  contain information identifiable with any  test subject or test
  user institution, such information shall be deleted prior to filing with
  the commissioner.
3. All reports or other documents submitted pursuant to  this  section
  shall be public records.
2023 New York Laws › EDN - Education › Title 1 - General Provisions › Article 7-A - Standardized Testing › 342-A - Special Administrations.

§ 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  as  soon  after or before as is possible, at comparable
  times, places and cost.
2. Provided, however, a test agency shall not be required to  offer  a
  greater  number  of special administrations than were offered during the
  base year commencing August first, nineteen  hundred  seventy-eight  and
  ending  July  thirty-first,  nineteen  hundred  seventy-nine  unless the
  number of regular administrations is increased in any subsequent testing
  year, in which case the provisions of subdivision one shall apply.
3. No test subject shall by reason of religious belief be denied by  a
  test  agency,  the  opportunity  to take a test which shall be disclosed
  pursuant to subdivisions one and two of section three hundred  forty-two
  of this article during any twelve month period.
2023 New York Laws › EDN - Education › Title 1 - General Provisions › Article 7-A - Standardized Testing › 344 - Disclosure of Test Scores.

§ 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  subject.   A test agency may, however, release all scores received
  by a test subject on a test to anyone designated by the test subject  to
  receive the current score.
This  section shall not be construed to prohibit release of scores and
  other information in the possession of a test  agency  for  purposes  of
  research leading to studies and reports concerning the tests themselves.
  Such  studies  and reports must contain no information identifiable with
  any individual test subject or user  institution  unless  authorized  by
  that individual or institution.
2023 New York Laws › EDN - Education › Title 1 - General Provisions › Article 7-A - Standardized Testing › 344-A - Pretest Questions.

§ 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  education
  committee  in the senate and the chair of the higher education committee
  in the assembly.
2023 New York Laws › EDN - Education › Title 1 - General Provisions › Article 7-A - Standardized Testing › 346 - Test Subject Review of Computerized Test.

§ 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 afforded
  the opportunity to review questions and answers from their  computerized
  tests. On or before July first, nineteen hundred ninety-eight, such test
  agency   shall  submit  to  the  commissioner  a  report  detailing  the
  implementation of such process. Such report shall  set  forth  in  clear
  language  the nature of such opportunity, which shall also be sufficient
  to meet the demands of such process. The commissioner shall  review  and
  comment  upon the report no later than September first, nineteen hundred
  ninety-eight.
2023 New York Laws › EDN - Education › Title 1 - General Provisions › Article 8 - State University and State Financial Assistance for Higher Education › 352 - State University of New York Established.

§ 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  responsible  for  the  planning,  supervision  and administration of
  facilities and programs in accordance with  the  plan  proposed  by  the
  state university trustees as approved by the regents pursuant to section
  two  hundred  thirty-seven  of  this chapter. The state university shall
  provide for higher education supported in whole or in  part  with  state
  moneys  in  accordance  with  the  provisions  of  section three hundred
  fifty-eight hereof, and shall  perform  such  other  duties  as  may  be
  entrusted  to  it  by  the provisions of this article and any other law.
  Subject to the terms of any agreement to  which  it  is  a  party,  such
  corporation  shall have the care, custody, control and management of the
  lands,  grounds,  buildings,  facilities  and  equipment  used  for  the
  purposes of the state-operated institutions of the state university, and
  it shall have power to protect, preserve and improve the same.
2. Whenever such corporation acquires, absorbs, merges or consolidates
  with or becomes the successor to any higher educational institution, all
  the  right, title and interest in real property held by such predecessor
  institution shall vest in and be held and enjoyed by the people  of  the
  state  of  New  York and state university of New York shall thereupon be
  deemed to be vested with and become the successor to  all  right,  title
  and  interest  in  any  personal  property,  or  any beneficial interest
  therein, or any other rights and powers possessed by  such  institution,
  whether  derived  by  gift,  grant,  devise  or  bequest,  in  trust  or
  otherwise.
3. The state university shall consist of the four  university  centers
  at  Albany, Binghamton, Buffalo and Stony Brook, the designated colleges
  of arts and sciences at Brockport, Buffalo, Cortland, Fredonia, Geneseo,
  New Paltz, Old  Westbury,  Oneonta,  Oswego,  Plattsburgh,  Potsdam  and
  Purchase,  empire state college, the agricultural and technical colleges
  at Alfred,  Canton,  Cobleskill,  Delhi,  Farmingdale  and  Morrisville,
  downstate  medical  center,  upstate  medical  center,  the  college  of
  optometry, the college of environmental science and  forestry,  maritime
  college,  the  college  of  technology  at  Utica/Rome, the statutory or
  contract colleges at Cornell university and Alfred university, and  such
  additional universities, colleges and other institutions, facilities and
  research centers as have been or hereafter may be acquired, established,
  operated  or  contracted  to  be  operated  for  the  state by the state
  university trustees.
2023 New York Laws › EDN - Education › Title 1 - General Provisions › Article 8 - State University and State Financial Assistance for Higher Education › 355-C - College Opportunity to Prepare for Employment.

§ 355-c. College  opportunity to prepare for employment.  1. The state
  university is authorized to enter into an agreement with the  department
  of  social  services for the establishment of the college opportunity to
  prepare for employment (COPE) program for the development of  a  program
  of  allowable  activities  and services for eligible participants in the
  federal job opportunity and basic skills (JOBS) program.
2. The state  university  shall  identify  such  funds  as  necessary,
  including  any  private  funds  provided  for  the purpose of supporting
  employment and training  services,  to  be  used  on  a  matching  basis
  consistent with federal requirements.
3.  Services  may  include,  but  are  not  limited  to,  high  school
  equivalency, basic education, job skills  training,  English-as-a-second
  language,   job   readiness   training,  job  placement  services,  case
  management, career counseling and  assessment,  employability  planning,
  supportive  services  such  as  child  care,  and  a youth demonstration
  activity providing an integrated program  of  high  school  equivalency,
  occupational training, work experience, and job placement.
4.  The  state university shall submit an annual evaluation and report
  on the college opportunity to prepare  for  employment  program  to  the
  governor,  the  speaker  of the assembly, the temporary president of the
  senate, the chairman   of the assembly ways  and  means  committee,  the
  chairman  of  the  senate  finance  committee,  and  the  chair  of  the
  legislative commission on skills development  and  career  education  no
  later  than  October thirty-first following the program year ending June
  thirtieth. The evaluation and report shall  include,  at  a  minimum,  a
  description  of  services provided, participant characteristics, data on
  measures of educational  and  job  skills  gains,  job  development  and
  placement, and retention.
2023 New York Laws › EDN - Education › Title 1 - General Provisions › Article 8 - State University and State Financial Assistance for Higher Education › 355-D - Educational Opportunity Centers.

§  355-d.  Educational  opportunity centers. 1. There shall be created
within the state university of New York a comprehensive system of higher
education programs and services that promote the growth and stability of
the state's educationally and  economically  challenged  communities  as
referred to in this section as educational opportunity centers.
2.   Such   educational  opportunity  centers  shall  be  managed  and
supervised by the  state  university  and  shall  provide  programs  and
services  that  include,  but are not limited to the following, provided
that the state university shall have the  discretion  to  determine  the
programs and services offered at each educational opportunity center:
(a)  academic programs leading to and increasing persistence in higher
education;
(b) vocational programs leading to career pathways, gainful employment
and self-sufficiency;
(c) counseling and guidance services to enhance student retention;
(d) targeted services for business and industry to upgrade  the  skill
levels  of  emerging  and  incumbent  workers  such  that  they  support
increased  productivity  and  the  creation   and   retention   of   job
opportunities;
(e)  collaboration  with  secondary  schools to assist in the academic
preparation of at-risk youth;
(f) collaborative programs with colleges and universities to  increase
opportunities for center graduates for advanced placement and receipt of
academic credits for academic work completed at such center;
(g)  collaboration  with  other  state  and  local agencies, workforce
development  boards  and  charitable  organizations  to  meet   emerging
state-wide priorities for serving the disadvantaged; and
(h)  entrepreneurial training opportunities that may lead to community
economic development.
3. The state university shall formulate a plan and guidelines for  the
organization,  development,  coordination  and  operation of educational
opportunity centers  and  may  promulgate  such  rules  and  regulations
necessary  to  carry out the provisions of this section. Such plan shall
include:
(a) definition of academic and economic eligibility;
(b) procedures for the selection of such students for admission  to  a
center;
(c)  program  objectives  including coordination with the university's
long range mission and goals; and
(d) program evaluation and reporting.
2023 New York Laws › EDN - Education › Title 1 - General Provisions › Article 8 - State University and State Financial Assistance for Higher Education › 357 - Statutory or Contract Colleges.

§ 357. Statutory or contract colleges.  Statutory or contract colleges
  shall continue to be operated pursuant to the provisions of this chapter
  but  such  colleges  shall  be subject to the general supervision of the
  state university trustees.
2023 New York Laws › EDN - Education › Title 1 - General Provisions › Article 8 - State University and State Financial Assistance for Higher Education › 358 - State Aid for Certain Higher Educational Institutions.

§ 358. State  aid  for  certain  higher educational institutions.   1.
  State financial assistance may be  provided  for  designated  shares  of
  capital  expenditures or operating expenditures or both to the following
  types of institutions operating in conjunction with the state university
  program:
a. Medical schools,  dental  schools,  research  centers  and  similar
  institutions  or  facilities  operating  specified  training or research
  programs or projects pursuant to contracts with  the  state  university.
  The  state  university is hereby authorized to enter into such contracts
  with the city university of New  York.    The  acceptance  of  any  such
  financial  assistance or the making of any such contract by or on behalf
  of  a  medical  school,  dental  school,  research  center  or   similar
  institution  or  facility  shall  not  subject  it  or  its  programs to
  supervision, control or regulation  by  the  state  university  trustees
  except  to  the  extent that such supervision, control or regulation are
  expressly stated in the contract.
b. Community colleges.
c. Post-secondary technical vocational training institutions which are
  partly supported by a municipality or  board  of  education  and  partly
  supported  by an educational foundation for an industry chartered by the
  board of regents.
2023 New York Laws › EDN - Education › Title 1 - General Provisions › Article 8 - State University and State Financial Assistance for Higher Education › 363 - Curing Alzheimer's Health Consortium.

§  363.  Curing  Alzheimer's  health  consortium.  1.  There is hereby
  established  within  the  state  university  of  New  York  the   curing
  Alzheimer's  health consortium. The consortium shall have as its purpose
  to identify genes that predict an  increased  risk  for  developing  the
  disease,  collaborating  with  research  institutions  within  the state
  university of New York system, and the department of health, in research
  projects  and  studies  to  identify  opportunities   to   develop   new
  therapeutic treatment and cures for Alzheimer's.
2.  The  state  university  of  New  York  shall  issue  a request for
  proposals to partner with hospitals both within the state university  of
  New  York  and  other  not-for-profit article twenty-eight of the public
  health  law  hospitals  and   non-profit   higher   education   research
  institutions to map the genomes of individuals suffering from or at risk
  of Alzheimer's.
2023 New York Laws › EDN - Education › Title 1 - General Provisions › Article 8 - State University and State Financial Assistance for Higher Education › 364 - Separability.

§ 364. Separability.  If any clause, sentence, subdivision, paragraph,
  section  or  part  of this article be adjudged by any court of competent
  jurisdiction to be invalid, such judgment shall not  affect,  impair  or
  invalidate the remainder thereof, but shall be confined in its operation
  to the clause, sentence, subdivision, paragraph, section or part thereof
  directly  involved  in the controversy in which said judgment shall have
  been rendered.