2023 New York Laws › EDN - Education › Title 1 - General Provisions › Article 1 - Short Title and Definitions › 2 - Definitions.

§ 2. Definitions.  Wherever  used in this chapter, the following terms
  shall have the respective meanings hereinafter set forth or indicated:
1. Academy. The term "academy" means an incorporated  institution  for
  instruction  in  secondary  education,  and  such high schools, academic
  departments in union free school districts  and  similar  unincorporated
  schools  as are admitted by the regents to the university as of academic
  grade.
2.  College.  The  term  "college"  includes  universities  and  other
  institutions for higher education authorized to confer degrees.
3. University. The term "university" means The University of the State
  of New York.
4.  Regents.  The  term  "regents"  means  board  of  regents  of  The
  University of the State of New York.
5.  Commissioner.  The  term  "commissioner"  means  commissioner   of
  education of the state of New York.
6. Department. The term "department" means education department of the
  state of New York.
7.   Secondary   education.   The  term  "secondary  education"  means
  instruction of academic grade, between the  elementary  grades  and  the
  college or university.
8.  Higher  education.  The term "higher education" means education in
  advance of secondary education,  and  includes  the  work  of  colleges,
  universities,  professional  and technical schools, and educational work
  connected with libraries, museums, university and educational  extension
  courses and similar agencies.
9.  Trustee.  The  term  "trustees,"  when  not used in reference to a
  school district, includes directors, managers or other  similar  members
  of  the  governing  board  of  an  educational  institution.  The  terms
  "trustee" and "trustees", respectively, when  used  in  reference  to  a
  school  district,  shall  include the plural or singular meaning, as the
  case may be, unless otherwise specified.
10. Parental relation. The term "persons in parental  relation"  to  a
  child  includes  the parents, guardians or other persons, whether one or
  more, lawfully having the  care,  custody  or  control  of  such  child,
  including  persons  who have been designated pursuant to title fifteen-A
  of article five of the general obligations law as  persons  in  parental
  relation to the child.
11.  Compulsory school ages. The term "child of compulsory school age"
  means any child between six and sixteen years of age  lawfully  required
  to attend upon instruction.
12.  School  authorities.  The  term  "school  authorities"  means the
  trustees, or board of education, or corresponding officers, whether  one
  or more, and by whatever name known, of a city school district, or other
  school district however created.
13.   School  officer.  The  term  "school  officer"  means  a  clerk,
  collector, or treasurer of any school district; a trustee; a member of a
  board of education or other body in control of the schools  by  whatever
  name  known  in  a  union free school district, central school district,
  central  high  school  district,  or  in  a  city  school  district;   a
  superintendent  of  schools;  a district superintendent; a supervisor of
  attendance or  attendance  officer;  or  other  elective  or  appointive
  officer  in  a  school  district  whose  duties  generally relate to the
  administration of affairs connected with the public school system.
14. Board of education. The term "board of education" shall include by
  whatever name known the governing body charged with the general control,
  management and responsibility of the schools  of  a  union  free  school
  district, central school district, central high school district, or of a
  city school district.
15. School year. The term "school year" means the period commencing on
  the  first  day  of July in each year and ending on the thirtieth day of
  June next following.
16. City school district. a. The following school districts are hereby
  designated  and  declared  to  be  city school districts: (1) Any school
  district coterminous with a city  on  January  first,  nineteen  hundred
  fifty;  (2)  any  school  district part of which was without and part of
  which was within a city on January first, nineteen  hundred  fifty,  and
  which then contained the whole or the greater portion of the children of
  the city between birth and eighteen years of age, as shown by the school
  census;  and  (3) any school district wholly within, but not coterminous
  with, a city on January first, nineteen hundred fifty,  and  which  then
  contained  the greater portion of the children of the city between birth
  and eighteen years of age, as shown by the school census.
b. Whenever a city shall be  created  after  January  first,  nineteen
  hundred  fifty,  that  school district shall be and become a city school
  district which, on the effective date of the incorporation of such city,
  is: (1) coterminous with the city; (2) partly without and partly  within
  the  city  and  then  contains  the  whole or the greater portion of the
  children of the city between birth and eighteen years of age,  as  shown
  by  the school census; or (3) wholly within but not coterminous with the
  city and then contains the greater portion of the children of  the  city
  between birth and eighteen years of age, as shown by the school census.
c. The corporate existence of any school district, which, by virtue of
  the  provisions  of  this subdivision, shall be and become a city school
  district, shall continue, and any such school district thereafter  shall
  be  governed by the provisions of this chapter applicable to city school
  districts.
* 17. State university. The term "state university"  means  the  state
  university of New York, as created by article eight of this chapter.
* NB There are 2 sub 17's
* 17.  City.  The  term  "city" means the city school district of such
  city where the context clearly so indicates.
* NB There are 2 sub 17's
18. Minor or infant. The term "minor" or "infant" means a  person  who
  has not attained the age of eighteen years.
19.  Expenditures.  For  purposes  of  computing  aid to public school
  districts,  boards  of  cooperative  educational   services,   nonpublic
  elementary and secondary schools, public and cooperative library systems
  or public and free association libraries pursuant to this chapter or any
  other  law,  such  aid  shall  be  computed  using  state aid worksheets
  developed pursuant to  regulations  of  the  commissioner,  designed  to
  reflect use of the state comptroller's definition of expenditures to the
  extent  possible.  Such  worksheet  definitions of expenditures shall be
  used notwithstanding the fact that this chapter or other applicable  law
  may  use  terms  such  as  cash  expenditures,  expenses,  costs,  paid,
  payments, or other such terms.
24. Career education. The  term  "career  education"  means  organized
  educational  programs  offering a sequence of courses which are directly
  related to the preparation of individuals in paid or  unpaid  employment
  in  current or emerging occupations requiring other than a baccalaureate
  or advanced degrees,  and  shall  include  vocational  and  occupational
  education. Such programs shall include competency-based applied learning
  which  contributes  to  an individual's academic knowledge, higher-order
  reasoning,  and  problem  solving  skills,  work   activities,   general
  employability skills, and the skills necessary for economic independence
  as  a  productive  and  contributing  member  of society. Such term also
  includes applied technology education. Except where the intent indicates

  otherwise, the terms "vocational education" and "occupational education"
  shall mean "career education."