New York Education Law Article 52 - CITY SCHOOL DISTRICTS OF CITIES WITH ONE HUNDRED TWENTY-FIVE THOUSAND INHABITANTS OR MORE

• 2550 - Application of Article.
  This article shall apply to the city school districts of the following cities only: New York, Buffalo, Rochester, Syracuse and Yonkers.
• 2551 - Board of Education Corporate Body.
  The board of education of each city school district of a city with one hundred twenty-five thousand inhabitants or more according to the latest federal...
• 2552 - Board of Education.
  The board of education of each such city school district is hereby continued. The educational affairs in each such city school district shall be under...
• 2553 - Board of Education; Eligibility; How Chosen; Term of Office; Vacancies.
  1. No person shall be eligible to the office of member of a board of education who is not a citizen of the United States,...
• 2554 - Powers and Duties of Board of Education.
  * Subject to the provisions of this chapter, the board of education in a city, except the city board of the city of New York,...
• 2554-a - Powers of Boards of Education to Ban Fraternities, Sororities and Other Secret Societies.
  1. In its discretion, the board of education of each school district, may adopt rules and regulations to abolish and/or prohibit any fraternity, sorority or...
• 2554-b - Special Provisions Relating to the City School District of the City of New York During Emergency Period.
  1. As used in this section, the term "emergency period" shall mean the period from the effective date of this section to the first day...
• 2554-c - Identification Photos of Senior High School, Junior High School or Intermediate School Students in the City School District of the City of New York.
  Upon the recommendation of the principal of a senior high school, junior high school or intermediate school and subject to the approval of the community...
• 2555 - Kindergartens, Nursery and Night Schools.
  1. The board of education of each city may maintain kindergartens which shall be free to resident children between the ages of four and six...
• 2556 - Buildings, Sites, et Cetera.
  1. A board of education is authorized and it shall have power to purchase, repair, remodel, improve or enlarge school buildings or other buildings or...
• 2557 - Purchase and Sale of Real Property.
  The board of education may purchase real property for any of the purposes authorized by law and shall take title thereof in the name of...
• 2559 - Power of Removal of Member of Board of Education.
  For cause shown, and after giving notice of the charge and opportunity of defense, the commissioner of education may remove any member of a board...
• 2560 - Liability of Board of Education and Community School Boards in a City Having a Population of One Million or More Inhabitants.
  1. Notwithstanding any inconsistent provision of law, general, special or local, or the limitation contained in the provisions of any city charter, any duly appointed...
• 2561 - Liability of Certain Officers and Employees of Boards of Education in a City Having a Population of One Million or More Inhabitants.
  If, in order to furnish needy children or minors with food, shoes, clothing, and other necessities to enable them to attend school as contemplated by...
• 2562 - Presentation of Claims Against a Board of Education of a City Having a Population of Four Hundred Thousand or More to Be Pleaded.
  1. No action or special proceeding, for any cause whatever, shall be prosecuted or maintained against a board of education of a city having a...
• 2563 - Meetings of Board of Education.
  1. The annual meeting of a board of education shall be held on the second Tuesday in May, at four o'clock in the afternoon, at...
• 2564 - Local School Board Districts.
  1. The board of education of the city school district of the city of New York, by resolution duly adopted, shall divide the city school...
• 2565 - Superintendent of Schools, Associate Superintendents, Board of Superintendents.
  1. The superintendent or an associate superintendent of schools of a city in office on June eighth, nineteen hundred seventeen, shall hold his position for...
• 2566 - Powers and Duties of Superintendent of Schools.
  The superintendent of schools of a city shall possess, subject to the by-laws of the board of education, the following powers and be charged with...
• 2567 - Protection of Rights Exercised Under Licenses Issued by a Board of Education in a City Having a Population of One Million or More.
  No person shall forfeit any right given to him under a license issued by a board of education in a city having a population of...
• 2568 - Superintendent of Schools Authorized to Require Medical Examination of Certain Employees of Certain Boards of Education.
  The superintendent of schools of a city having a population of one million or more shall be empowered to require any person employed by the...
• 2569 - Appointment of Teachers.
  a. In a city having a population of one million or more inhabitants, state certification in accordance with the regulations of the commissioner shall be...
• 2573 - Appointment of Assistant, District or Other Superintendents, Teachers and Other Employees; Their Salaries, et Cetera.
  1. (a) i. Teachers and all other members of the teaching staff, appointed prior to July first, two thousand fifteen and authorized by section twenty-five...
• 2574 - Assistant Superintendents in a City Having a Population of One Million or More.
  The title district superintendent used in any law to designate a district superintendent in the employ of the board of education of a city having...
• 2575 - Retirement of Employees of Board of Education.
  1. (a) The board of education of a city school district of a city having a population of one hundred thousand or more shall have...
• 2575-a - Transfer of Certain Board of Education Administrative Employees' to School Clerical Services of the Board of Education of the City of New York.
  Notwithstanding any other provision of this law to the contrary, any employee who has completed at least twenty years of continuous board of education administrative...
• 2575-b - Transfer of Attendance Teachers and Specially Certificated Attendance Officers to the New York City Teachers' Retirement System.
  Any attendance teacher or specially certificated attendance officer who is a member of the board of education retirement system of the City of New York...
• 2575-c - Transfer of the Director of Attendance, Assistant Director of Attendance, Chief Attendance Officer, Division Supervising Attendance Officers and Distr
  2575-c. Transfer of the director of attendance, assistant director of attendance, chief attendance officer, division supervising attendance officers and district supervising attendance officers, supervisors of...
• 2575-d - Payment of Benefits by Board of Education Retirement System of the City of New York in Cases Where Workmen's Compensation is or May Be Payable; Reimbu
  2575-d. Payment of benefits by board of education retirement system of the city of New York in cases where workmen's compensation is or may be...
• 2575-e - Eligibility of Retirees for Membership in the Board of Education Retirement System of the City of New York.
  Notwithstanding any inconsistent provision of sections 13-267 and 13-379 of the administrative code of the city of New York, or any other provision of this...
• 2576 - Annual Estimate.
  1. The board of education in each city having a population of less than one million shall prepare annually an itemized estimate for the current...
• 2577 - Annual Financial Report.
  In any city in which the annual financial report of the fiscal officer, board of estimate and apportionment, or other official, board or body of...
• 2579 - Payment of Obligations.
  1. If a city shall issue obligations for any of the purposes enumerated in paragraph c of subdivision one of section twenty-five hundred seventy-six of...
• 2580 - Funds; Custody and Disbursement.
  1. Public moneys apportioned to a city by the state and all funds raised or collected by the authorities in a city for school purposes...
• 2581 - Certain Corporate Schools Entitled to Participate in Funds of Board of Education of City of New York.
  The corporate schools entitled to participate in the funds of the board of education of the city of New York are as follows: The schools...
• 2582 - Trustees of Corporate Schools Entitled to Participate in Funds of the Board of Education of the City of New York May Convey to City of New York and Be
  merged. The trustees, managers and directors of any of the corporate schools of the city of New York entitled to participate in the apportionment of...
• 2583 - Certain Schools to Report As to Moneys and Attendance; Accidental Omission to Report.
  The board of education of the city of New York shall require from the officers conducting schools by appointment of the board, and from the...
• 2584 - Bonds of Employees.
  The board of estimate and apportionment of a city, or in a city having no board of estimate and apportionment, the body or officer performing...
• 2585 - Continuation in Office of Boards, Bureaus, Teachers, Principals and Other Employees, et Cetera.
  1. Except as otherwise provided herein the boards, bureaus, teachers, principals, supervisors, superintendents, heads of departments, assistants to principals, examiners, supervisors of lectures, directors and...
• 2586 - Anniversary Day As a Holiday for Pupils in the Public Schools of the Borough of Brooklyn and in the Borough of Queens, City of New York.
  The first Thursday in June in each year, except in those years when the first Thursday in June occurs in the same week with Memorial...
• 2587 - Tenure in Fashion Institute of Technology.
  1. The following words and phrases, as hereinafter used, and for the purposes of this section, shall have the following meanings: a. "Community college" shall...
• 2588 - Seniority, Retention and Displacement Rights in Connection With Abolition of Positions in City School Districts of Cities Having More Than One Million
  inhabitants. 1. For the purposes of this section, the tenure areas applicable to all professional education positions shall be defined as the license areas established...

Last modified: February 3, 2019