2023 New York Laws › EDN - Education › Title 1 - General Provisions › Article 5 - University of the State of New York › Part 1 - General Organization › 213 - Extension of Educational Facilities.

§ 213.   Extension  of  educational  facilities.    1. The regents may
  extend to the people at large increased  educational  opportunities  and
  facilities,  stimulate  interest  therein,  recommend methods, designate
  suitable  teachers  and  lecturers,  conduct  examinations   and   grant
  credentials, and otherwise organize, aid and conduct such work.  And the
  regents, and with their approval the commissioner of education, may buy,
  sell, exchange and receive by will, or other gift, or on deposit, books,
  pictures,  statuary or other sculptured work, lantern slides, apparatus,
  maps, globes, films, sound films,  kinescopes,  photographic  recordings
  and  any article or collections pertaining to or useful in and to any of
  the departments, divisions, schools, institutions, associations or other
  agencies,  or  work,   under   their   supervision,   or   control,   or
  encouragement,  and  may  lend  or  deposit  any  such articles in their
  custody or control,  when  or  where  in  their  judgement  compensating
  educational usefulness will result therefrom; and may also, from time to
  time,  enter  into  contracts  desirable  for  carrying  into effect the
  foregoing provisions.
2.  In carrying out the provisions of subdivision one of this section,
  the regents may:   a.   Contract with institutions  in  the  university,
  school  districts,  boards  of cooperative educational services or other
  non-profit  educational  agencies  for   the   acquisition   from   such
  institutions,  school  districts,  boards  or  agencies  of sound films,
  kinescopes, audio recordings and  video  recordings,  scripts,  research
  reports  or related educational television materials, for the use of the
  department, or for the production of educational television programs:
b.   Lease, to school districts,  boards  of  cooperative  educational
  services  or  television  corporations  created  pursuant to section two
  hundred thirty-six of this chapter, educational  television  facilities,
  including transmitters, micro-wave relay facilities, production centers,
  closed-circuit systems and any equipment necessary therefor, constructed
  or  acquired,  and  owned by the state, leased by the state, or contract
  with such districts,  boards  of  cooperative  educational  services  or
  corporations for the operation of such facilities:
c.  Lease and operate a television station in the city of New York.
3.   For the purpose of carrying out the provisions of subdivision two
  of  this  section,  the  regents  may  make  rules  or   authorize   the
  commissioner  to  make  regulations providing standards for research and
  experimentation, operation and programming of educational television  by
  the  state  and  the school districts, boards of cooperative educational
  services, institutions, corporations and agencies, respectively.
4.  In carrying out the provisions of subdivisions one and two of this
  section and in order to encourage and stimulate the further  development
  and  use  of educational television in the state of New York and for the
  purposes of providing educational services and facilities for pupils  in
  the  public  schools  of  the state of New York, the board of regents is
  hereby authorized to make additional apportionments to school  districts
  or  boards  of  cooperative  educational services in accordance with the
  provisions of this subdivision to encourage and assist such districts or
  boards to install and operate a broadcast or  closed-circuit  television
  system,  or  television  receiving  equipment  for  the  improvement  of
  classroom instruction.
a.  Any school district or board of cooperative  educational  services
  planning to establish such a program shall submit to the commissioner of
  education on or before the first day of May of the school year preceding
  the  school  year  during  which  the  program  is  to  be  conducted an
  application, together with  such  information  as  the  commissioner  of
  education  shall  require,  including  at  least a complete statement of
  purposes of  the  program,  the  detailed  procedures  of  operation,  a

  detailed estimate of the cost of such program and a complete description
  of  the  installation  and  equipment  to  be installed and the detailed
  procedures of evaluations to be used in determining the  improvement  of
  classroom instruction.
b.    The  commissioner  of  education  shall establish procedures for
  evaluations of such programs.  One such program for each school district
  or board of cooperative educational services  may  be  approved  by  the
  commissioner   of   education,  and  any  program  so  approved  by  the
  commissioner of education shall be placed on a list in  accordance  with
  the  educational merit and value of the program, and the date of receipt
  of the application, where several programs are evaluated as having equal
  merit and value.
c.  Apportionment shall then be made in accordance  with  the  formula
  contained  in  paragraph  d  of  this  subdivision, in the order of such
  programs on the list established in accordance with paragraph b of  this
  subdivision within the amount of the appropriation therefor.
d.    Any  district  or  board which proposes to install and operate a
  broadcast or closed-circuit television system  or  television  receiving
  equipment  for  the  improvement of classroom instruction, in accordance
  with a program approved as provided  in  this  subdivision  and  to  the
  extent  that  funds are available pursuant to this subdivision, shall be
  entitled to an apportionment during the five-year period  following  the
  approval of the program as follows:
Fifty  per  cent  of the approved cost relative to the acquisition and
  installation of the equipment, and during the first year fifty per  cent
  of  the  approved  operational  expenses in connection with the approved
  operation of the program; during the second year forty per cent  of  the
  approved  operational expenses in connection with the approved operation
  of the program; during the third year thirty per cent  of  the  approved
  operational  expenses  in  connection with the approved operation of the
  program; during  the  fourth  year  twenty  per  cent  of  the  approved
  operational  expenses  in  connection with the approved operation of the
  program; and during  the  fifth  year  ten  per  cent  of  the  approved
  operational  expenses  in  connection with the approved operation of the
  program.
5.  A school district or a board of cooperative  educational  services
  is  hereby  authorized  and empowered to do and perform any and all acts
  necessary or convenient to enable it to carry out the provisions of this
  section.
6.  The regents are authorized to make grants of money, materials  and
  equipment  for  the  purpose  of  promoting  the  erection  and  use  of
  educational television facilities by educational television corporations
  established pursuant to the provisions of section two hundred thirty-six
  of this chapter.  Such grants may be made upon such terms and conditions
  as the regents may prescribe.