New York Education Law Part 1 - COMPULSORY EDUCATION

• 3201 - Discrimination on Account of Race, Creed, Color or National Origin Prohibited.
  1. No person shall be refused admission into or be excluded from any public school in the state of New York on account of race,...
• 3201-a - Discrimination on Account of Sex.
  Notwithstanding any general, special, local law or rule or regulation of the education department to the contrary, no person shall be refused admission into or...
• 3202 - Public Schools Free to Resident Pupils; Tuition From Nonresident Pupils.
  1. A person over five and under twenty-one years of age who has not received a high school diploma is entitled to attend the public...
• 3203 - Selection of School for Attendance of Children When District Line Intersects a Dwelling.
  1. The owner of taxable property that is so located that the boundary line between two school districts intersects (a) the dwelling on said property...
• 3204 - Instruction Required.
  1. Place of instruction. A minor required to attend upon instruction by the provisions of part one of this article may attend at a public...
• 3205 - Attendance of Minors Upon Full Time Day Instruction.
  1. a. In each school district of the state, each minor from six to sixteen years of age shall attend upon full time instruction. b....
• 3206 - Attendance of Minors Upon Part Time Instruction.
  1. The board of education of a city or district shall have power to require each employed minor from sixteen to seventeen years of age...
• 3207 - Attendance Upon Evening Instruction.
  In each city and school district in which evening instruction is provided, under the provisions of part one of this article, each person from seventeen...
• 3207-a - Service of Persons Seventeen Years of Age As Election Inspectors or Poll Clerks.
  A school district may permit an enrolled student, with the consent of such student's parent, guardian, or other person in parental relation, to serve as...
• 3208 - Attendance; Screening of the New Entrants; Prohibition Against Mandatory Medication.
  * 3208. Attendance; screening of new entrants; prohibition against mandatory medication. 1. A person included by the provisions of this part shall be required to...
• 3208-a - Special Proceeding to Determine Physical Capacity of Student to Participate in Athletic Programs.
  1. Upon a school district's determination that a student shall not be permitted to participate in an athletic program by reason of a physical impairment,...
• 3209 - Education of Homeless Children.
  1. Definitions. * a. Homeless child. For the purposes of this article, the term "homeless child" shall mean: (1) a child or youth who lacks...
• 3209-a - Child Abuse Prevention.
  Each school district of the state shall: (1) develop, maintain and disseminate written policies and procedures pursuant to title six of article six of the...
• 3210 - Amount and Character of Required Attendance.
  1. Regularity and conduct. a. A minor required by the provisions of part one of this article to attend upon instruction shall attend regularly as...
• 3211 - Records of Attendance Upon Instruction.
  1. Who shall keep such record. The teacher of every minor required by the provisions of part one of this article to attend upon instruction,...
• 3211-a - Reports of Reading Tests.
  The results of any standardized reading test administered by a district or school to determine the level at which a pupil is capable of reading...
• 3212 - Definition of Persons in Parental Relation and Their Duties; Duties of Certain Other Persons.
  1. Definition. As used in this article, a person in parental relation to another individual shall include his father or mother, by birth or adoption,...
• 3212-a - Records of Telephone Numbers.
  1. Each school shall maintain a record of the telephone number of each pupil enrolled in the school and each person in parental relation to...
• 3213 - Supervisors of Attendance; Attendance Teachers; Attendance Officers; Appointment, Compensation, Powers and Duties.
  1. Appointment, removal, compensation and supervision. a. To the end that children shall not suffer through unnecessary failure to attend school for any cause whatsoever,...
• 3214 - Student Placement, Suspensions and Transfers.
  1. School delinquent. A minor under seventeen years of age, required by any of the provisions of part one of this article to attend upon...
• 3215 - Unlawful Employment.
  1. It shall be unlawful, except as otherwise provided by law, to employ in any trade, business or service a minor who does not present...
• 3215-a - General Certification Provisions.
  1. Certificating officials. Employment certificates or permits shall be issued by the chancellor in the city school district of the city of New York, and...
• 3216 - Employment Certificates.
  1. A student non-factory employment certificate may be issued to a minor fourteen or fifteen years of age who is attending day school. The certificate...
• 3217 - Procedure for Issuance of Employment Certificates.
  1. An application for an employment certificate shall be made by a minor on a form prescribed by the commissioner of education. 2. Before issuing...
• 3218 - Evidence of Age.
  1. Evidence showing that the minor is of the required age shall be presented as follows: a. A duly certified transcript of a birth certificate...
• 3219 - Consent of Parent or Guardian.
  If the application is for a full-time employment certificate a parent or guardian shall personally appear before the issuing officer or school authorities to indicate...
• 3220 - Certificate of Physical Fitness.
  1. A certificate of physical fitness shall be issued to a minor if a thorough physical examination made within twelve months of his or her...
• 3221 - Pledge of Employment.
  The pledge of employment shall be signed by the initial prospective employer or his authorized representative and shall show his name and place of business,...
• 3222 - Schooling Record.
  1. By whom issued. The schooling record shall be issued by the principal of the school the minor attends or last attended, or by a...
• 3223 - Duties of Employers.
  The employer of any minor required to have an employment certificate: 1. Shall satisfy himself that the minor presenting an employment certificate is in fact...
• 3224 - Temporary Services.
  a. If an employer is engaged in a business of assigning employees for temporary services at another establishment, and the employer compensates the employee for...
• 3225 - Special Employment Certificate.
  1. A special employment certificate may be issued to a minor fifteen years of age, found to be incapable of profiting by further instruction available...
• 3226 - Farm Work Permits.
  1. A farm work permit may be issued to a minor fourteen or fifteen years of age authorizing employment in farm service. 2. A farm...
• 3227 - Street Trades.
  1. Definition. A street trade for the purposes of part one of this article shall include the carrying, selling, exposing or offering for sale of...
• 3228 - Newspaper Carrier.
  1. Definition: A "newspaper carrier" is a minor between the ages of eleven and eighteen years of age who engages in the occupation of delivering,...
• 3230 - School District Meetings and Activities.
  1. The board of education or trustees of each school district shall ensure that at any meeting or activity which is conducted by the board...
• 3232 - Courts Having Jurisdiction.
  1. Courts sitting as courts of special sessions or as magistrates' courts shall have concurrent jurisdiction with family courts to hear, try and determine charges...
• 3233 - Penalties.
  Except as otherwise provided, a violation of part one of this article shall be punishable for the first offense by a fine not exceeding ten...
• 3234 - Enforcement; Withholding State Moneys by Commissioner of Education.
  1. The commissioner of education shall supervise the enforcement of part one of this article and he may withhold one-half of all public school moneys...

Last modified: February 3, 2019