2023 New York Laws › EDN - Education › Title 1 - General Provisions › Article 2 - Dignity for All Students › 13 - Policies and Guidelines.

§ 13. Policies and guidelines. The board of education and the trustees
  or  sole  trustee  of  every  school  district  shall  create  policies,
  procedures and guidelines that shall include, but not be limited to:
1. Policies and procedures intended to  create  a  school  environment
  that  is free from harassment, bullying and discrimination, that include
  but are not limited to provisions which:
a. identify  the  principal,  superintendent  or  the  principal's  or
  superintendent's  designee as the school employee charged with receiving
  reports of harassment, bullying and discrimination;
b. enable students and parents to make an oral or  written  report  of
  harassment,  bullying  or discrimination to teachers, administrators and
  other school personnel that the school district deems appropriate;
c. require  school  employees  who  witness  harassment,  bullying  or
  discrimination,  or  receive  an  oral  or written report of harassment,
  bullying or discrimination, to promptly  orally  notify  the  principal,
  superintendent or the principal's or superintendent's designee not later
  than  one  school day after such school employee witnesses or receives a
  report of harassment, bullying or discrimination, and to file a  written
  report   with   the   principal,  superintendent  or  the  principal  or
  superintendent's designee not later than two school  days  after  making
  such oral report;
d.  require  the  principal,  superintendent  or  the  principal's  or
  superintendent's  designee   to   lead   or   supervise   the   thorough
  investigation of all reports of harassment, bullying and discrimination,
  and  to  ensure  that  such  investigation  is  completed promptly after
  receipt of any written reports made under this section;
e. require the school, when an investigation reveals any such verified
  harassment,  bullying  or  discrimination,  to   take   prompt   actions
  reasonably calculated to end the harassment, bullying or discrimination,
  eliminate any hostile environment, create a more positive school culture
  and  climate,  prevent recurrence of the behavior, and ensure the safety
  of the student or students against whom  such  harassment,  bullying  or
  discrimination  was  directed. Such actions shall be consistent with the
  guidelines created pursuant to subdivision four of this section;
f. prohibit retaliation against any individual  who,  in  good  faith,
  reports,  or  assists  in  the investigation of, harassment, bullying or
  discrimination;
g. include a school  strategy  to  prevent  harassment,  bullying  and
  discrimination;
h.  require  the principal to make a regular report on data and trends
  related   to   harassment,   bullying   and   discrimination   to    the
  superintendent;
i.  require  the  principal,  superintendent  or  the  principal's  or
  superintendent's designee, to notify promptly the appropriate local  law
  enforcement   agency   when   such   principal,  superintendent  or  the
  principal's or superintendent's designee, believes that any  harassment,
  bullying or discrimination constitutes criminal conduct;
j.  include  appropriate  references  to  the provisions of the school
  district's code of conduct  adopted  pursuant  to  section  twenty-eight
  hundred  one  of  this chapter that are relevant to harassment, bullying
  and discrimination;
k. require each school, at least once  during  each  school  year,  to
  provide  all  school  employees,  students and parents with a written or
  electronic copy of the school district's policies  created  pursuant  to
  this   section,   or   a   plain-language   summary  thereof,  including
  notification of the  process  by  which  students,  parents  and  school
  employees  may  report  harassment,  bullying  and  discrimination. This
  subdivision shall not be construed to require additional distribution of

  such policies and guidelines if they are otherwise distributed to school
  employees, students and parents;
l. maintain current versions of the school district's policies created
  pursuant  to  this section on the school district's internet website, if
  one exists;
2. Guidelines to be used in school training programs to discourage the
  development of harassment, bullying  and  discrimination,  and  to  make
  school   employees   aware  of  the  effects  of  harassment,  bullying,
  cyberbullying and discrimination on students and that are designed:
a. to raise the awareness  and  sensitivity  of  school  employees  to
  potential harassment, bullying and discrimination, and
b.  to enable employees to prevent and respond to harassment, bullying
  and discrimination; and
3.  Guidelines  relating  to  the  development  of   nondiscriminatory
  instructional  and  counseling  methods, and requiring that at least one
  staff member at every school  be  thoroughly  trained  to  handle  human
  relations  in  the areas of race, color, weight, national origin, ethnic
  group, religion, religious  practice,  disability,  sexual  orientation,
  gender, and sex; and
4.  Guidelines  relating  to the development of measured, balanced and
  age-appropriate  responses  to  instances  of  harassment,  bullying  or
  discrimination  by  students,  with  remedies and procedures following a
  progressive model that make appropriate use of intervention,  discipline
  and  education,  vary in method according to the nature of the behavior,
  the developmental age of  the  student  and  the  student's  history  of
  problem  behaviors,  and  are  consistent  with  the  district's code of
  conduct; and
5. Training required by this section shall address the social patterns
  of harassment, bullying and discrimination, as defined in section eleven
  of this article, including but not limited to  those  acts  based  on  a
  person's  actual  or  perceived  race,  color,  weight, national origin,
  ethnic  group,  religion,   religious   practice,   disability,   sexual
  orientation,  gender  or  sex,  the  identification  and  mitigation  of
  harassment, bullying and discrimination, and strategies for  effectively
  addressing  problems  of  exclusion,  bias and aggression in educational
  settings.