New York Education Law

Every section of the New York Education Law, in order — 1,946 sections. Source: NY Senate Open Legislation, current through November 4, 2026.

• N.Y. Educ. Law § 2851 — Eligible applicants; applications; submission
• N.Y. Educ. Law § 2852 — Issuance of charter
• N.Y. Educ. Law § 2853 — Charter school organization; oversight; facilities
• N.Y. Educ. Law § 2854 — General requirements
• N.Y. Educ. Law § 2855 — Causes for revocation or termination
• N.Y. Educ. Law § 2856 — Financing of charter schools
• N.Y. Educ. Law § 2857 — Notice; review and assessment
• N.Y. Educ. Law § 3001 — Qualifications of teachers
• N.Y. Educ. Law § 3001-a — Temporary teaching permit, person not a citizen
• N.Y. Educ. Law § 3001-b — First aid instruction mandatory for coaches of extra-class public school athletic activities
• N.Y. Educ. Law § 3001-c — First aid instruction mandatory for coaches of high school extra-class nonpublic school athletic activities
• N.Y. Educ. Law § 3001-d — Criminal history record checks and conditional appointments; nonpublic and private schools
• N.Y. Educ. Law § 3002 — Oath to support federal and state constitutions
• N.Y. Educ. Law § 3003 — Qualifications of superintendents
• N.Y. Educ. Law § 3004 — Regulations governing certification of teachers
• N.Y. Educ. Law § 3004-a — National board for professional teaching standards certification grant program
• N.Y. Educ. Law § 3004-b — Special procedures for certification
• N.Y. Educ. Law § 3004-c — Denial of application for certification
• N.Y. Educ. Law § 3005 — Leave of absence to teachers for teaching in foreign countries, other states and territories and other school districts
• N.Y. Educ. Law § 3005-a — Leave of absence for teaching purposes
• N.Y. Educ. Law § 3005-b — Leave of absence for personal illness
• N.Y. Educ. Law § 3006 — Commissioner of education to issue certificates
• N.Y. Educ. Law § 3006-a — Registration and continuing teacher and leader education requirements for holders of professional certificates in the classroom teaching ...
• N.Y. Educ. Law § 3007 — Endorsement of foreign certificates and diplomas
• N.Y. Educ. Law § 3008 — Certification of teachers by local authorities
• N.Y. Educ. Law § 3009 — Unqualified teachers shall not be paid from school moneys
• N.Y. Educ. Law § 3010 — Penalty for payment of unqualified teacher
• N.Y. Educ. Law § 3011 — Contract with teacher
• N.Y. Educ. Law § 3012 — Tenure: certain school districts
• N.Y. Educ. Law § 3012-a — Elementary tenure area
• N.Y. Educ. Law § 3012-c — Annual professional performance review of classroom teachers and building principals
• N.Y. Educ. Law § 3012-d — Annual teacher and principal evaluations
• N.Y. Educ. Law § 3012-e — Teacher and principal performance review plans
• N.Y. Educ. Law § 3013 — Abolition of office or position
• N.Y. Educ. Law § 3014 — Tenure: boards of cooperative educational services
• N.Y. Educ. Law § 3014-a — Teachers' rights as a result of a board or boards of cooperative educational services taking over a program formerly operated by a school...
• N.Y. Educ. Law § 3014-b — Teachers' rights as a result of a school district taking over a program formerly operated by a board of cooperative educational services
• N.Y. Educ. Law § 3014-c — Teachers' rights as a result of a school district taking back tuition students
• N.Y. Educ. Law § 3014-d — Teachers' rights as a result of a school district sending students to another district on a tuition basis pursuant to section two thousan...
• N.Y. Educ. Law § 3015 — Teacher's salary when payable
• N.Y. Educ. Law § 3016 — Contract when teacher is related to trustee or member of board of education
• N.Y. Educ. Law § 3017 — Individual liability of trustees
• N.Y. Educ. Law § 3018 — Revocation of certificate by district superintendent
• N.Y. Educ. Law § 3019 — Penalty for teacher's failure to complete contract
• N.Y. Educ. Law § 3019-a — Notice of termination of service by teachers
• N.Y. Educ. Law § 3020 — Discipline of teachers
• N.Y. Educ. Law § 3020-a — Disciplinary procedures and penalties
• N.Y. Educ. Law § 3021 — Removal of superintendents, teachers and employees for treasonable or seditious acts or utterances
• N.Y. Educ. Law § 3021-a — Notification of accusatory instrument alleging a sex offense
• N.Y. Educ. Law § 3022 — Elimination of subversive persons from the public school system
• N.Y. Educ. Law § 3023 — Liability of a board of education, trustee, trustees or board of cooperative educational services
• N.Y. Educ. Law § 3024 — Teachers responsible for record books
• N.Y. Educ. Law § 3025 — Verification of school register
• N.Y. Educ. Law § 3026 — Discriminations based on sex prohibited
• N.Y. Educ. Law § 3027 — Discrimination based on age prohibited
• N.Y. Educ. Law § 3028 — Liability of school district for cost and attorney's fees of action against, or prosecutions of, teachers, members of supervisory and adm...
• N.Y. Educ. Law § 3028-a — Students under twenty-one years of age suspected of alcohol abuse or narcotic addiction
• N.Y. Educ. Law § 3028-b — Notification of teachers' duty to provide information and immunity from liability
• N.Y. Educ. Law § 3028-c — Protection of school employees who report acts of violence and weapons possession
• N.Y. Educ. Law § 3028-d — Protection of school employees who report information regarding illegal or inappropriate financial practices
• N.Y. Educ. Law § 3029 — Hours of continuous duty for full time teachers
• N.Y. Educ. Law § 3029-a — Silent meditation in public schools
• N.Y. Educ. Law § 3030 — Interstate agreement on qualifications of educational personnel
• N.Y. Educ. Law § 3031 — Procedure when tenure not to be granted at conclusion of probationary period or when services to be discontinued
• N.Y. Educ. Law § 3032 — Teacher summer business training and employment program; and employer specific skill training grant program
• N.Y. Educ. Law § 3033 — New York state mentor teacher-internship program
• N.Y. Educ. Law § 3034 — Teacher career recruitment clearinghouse
• N.Y. Educ. Law § 3035 — Duties of commissioner; submission of fingerprints
• N.Y. Educ. Law § 3036 — Coursework for reporting child abuse and maltreatment for those with coaching licenses or coaching certificates
• N.Y. Educ. Law § 3037 — Grants for hiring teachers
• N.Y. Educ. Law § 3038 — The superintendent of each school district, in consultation with the district superintendent of a board of cooperative educational servic...
• N.Y. Educ. Law § 3101 — Definitions
• N.Y. Educ. Law § 3107 — In cities having a population of one million or more, employees of the board of education who are members of the New York city teachers' ...
• N.Y. Educ. Law § 3108 — Payment of salaries
• N.Y. Educ. Law § 3109 — Reduction of salaries for purchase of annuities
• N.Y. Educ. Law § 3109-a — Reduction of salaries for tax-deferred annuities
• N.Y. Educ. Law § 3201 — Discrimination on account of race, creed, color or national origin prohibited
• N.Y. Educ. Law § 3201-a — Discrimination on account of sex
• N.Y. Educ. Law § 3201-b — Denial of a free public education prohibited; additional prohibited practices
• N.Y. Educ. Law § 3202 — Public schools free to resident pupils; tuition from nonresident pupils
• N.Y. Educ. Law § 3203 — Selection of school for attendance of children when district line intersects a dwelling
• N.Y. Educ. Law § 3204 — Instruction required
• N.Y. Educ. Law § 3205 — Attendance of minors upon full time day instruction
• N.Y. Educ. Law § 3206 — Attendance of minors upon part time instruction
• N.Y. Educ. Law § 3207 — Attendance upon evening instruction
• N.Y. Educ. Law § 3207-a — Service of persons seventeen years of age as election inspectors or poll clerks
• N.Y. Educ. Law § 3208 — Attendance; screening of new entrants; prohibition against mandatory medication
• N.Y. Educ. Law § 3208-a — Special proceeding to determine physical capacity of student to participate in athletic programs
• N.Y. Educ. Law § 3209 — Education of homeless children
• N.Y. Educ. Law § 3209-a — Child abuse prevention
• N.Y. Educ. Law § 3210 — Amount and character of required attendance
• N.Y. Educ. Law § 3211 — Records of attendance upon instruction
• N.Y. Educ. Law § 3211-a — Reports of reading tests
• N.Y. Educ. Law § 3212 — Definition of persons in parental relation and their duties; duties of certain other persons
• N.Y. Educ. Law § 3212-a — Records of telephone numbers
• N.Y. Educ. Law § 3213 — Supervisors of attendance; attendance teachers; attendance officers; appointment, compensation, powers and duties
• N.Y. Educ. Law § 3214 — Student placement, suspensions and transfers
• N.Y. Educ. Law § 3215 — Unlawful employment
• N.Y. Educ. Law § 3215-a — General certification provisions
• N.Y. Educ. Law § 3216 — Employment certificates
• N.Y. Educ. Law § 3217 — Procedure for issuance of employment certificates
• N.Y. Educ. Law § 3218 — Evidence of age
• N.Y. Educ. Law § 3219 — Consent of parent or guardian
• N.Y. Educ. Law § 3220 — Certificate of physical fitness
• N.Y. Educ. Law § 3221 — Pledge of employment
• N.Y. Educ. Law § 3222 — Schooling record
• N.Y. Educ. Law § 3223 — Duties of employers
• N.Y. Educ. Law § 3224 — Temporary services
• N.Y. Educ. Law § 3225 — Special employment certificate
• N.Y. Educ. Law § 3226 — Farm work permits
• N.Y. Educ. Law § 3227 — Street trades
• N.Y. Educ. Law § 3228 — Newspaper carrier
• N.Y. Educ. Law § 3230 — School district meetings and activities
• N.Y. Educ. Law § 3232 — Courts having jurisdiction
• N.Y. Educ. Law § 3233 — Penalties
• N.Y. Educ. Law § 3234 — Enforcement; withholding state moneys by commissioner of education
• N.Y. Educ. Law § 3240 — School census in the cities of New York, Buffalo and Rochester
• N.Y. Educ. Law § 3241 — School census in cities, except in cities having a population of one hundred twenty-five thousand or more
• N.Y. Educ. Law § 3242 — School census in school districts
• N.Y. Educ. Law § 3243 — Penalty for withholding information
• N.Y. Educ. Law § 3244 — Education of children in foster care
• N.Y. Educ. Law § 3300 — Short title
• N.Y. Educ. Law § 3301 — Purpose
• N.Y. Educ. Law § 3302 — Definitions
• N.Y. Educ. Law § 3303 — Applicability
• N.Y. Educ. Law § 3304 — Educational records and enrollment
• N.Y. Educ. Law § 3304-a — Advance enrollment
• N.Y. Educ. Law § 3305 — Placement and attendance
• N.Y. Educ. Law § 3306 — Eligibility
• N.Y. Educ. Law § 3307 — Graduation
• N.Y. Educ. Law § 3308 — State coordination
• N.Y. Educ. Law § 3309 — Interstate commission on educational opportunity for military children
• N.Y. Educ. Law § 3310 — Powers and duties of the interstate commission
• N.Y. Educ. Law § 3311 — Organization and operation of the interstate commission
• N.Y. Educ. Law § 3312 — Rulemaking functions of the interstate commission
• N.Y. Educ. Law § 3313 — Oversight, enforcement, and dispute resolution
• N.Y. Educ. Law § 3314 — Financing of the interstate commission
• N.Y. Educ. Law § 3315 — Member states, effective date and amendment
• N.Y. Educ. Law § 3316 — Withdrawal and dissolution
• N.Y. Educ. Law § 3317 — Severability and construction
• N.Y. Educ. Law § 3318 — Binding effect of compact and other laws
• N.Y. Educ. Law § 3601 — When apportioned and how applied
• N.Y. Educ. Law § 3602 — Apportionment of public moneys to school districts employing eight or more teachers
• N.Y. Educ. Law § 3602-b — Apportionment of moneys to school districts employing fewer than eight teachers
• N.Y. Educ. Law § 3602-c — Apportionment of moneys to school districts for the provision of services to pupils attending nonpublic schools
• N.Y. Educ. Law § 3602-d — Work-prep education program
• N.Y. Educ. Law § 3602-e — Universal prekindergarten program
• N.Y. Educ. Law § 3602-f — Apportionment of moneys to school districts that result from the partitioning of territory and formation of new school districts by distr...
• N.Y. Educ. Law § 3604 — Conditions under which districts are entitled to apportionment
• N.Y. Educ. Law § 3606 — Nonresident academic attendance; manner of certifying and paying apportionment
• N.Y. Educ. Law § 3607 — Manner of payment of moneys apportioned
• N.Y. Educ. Law § 3608 — Certificate of apportionment by commissioner of education
• N.Y. Educ. Law § 3609-a — Moneys apportioned, when and how payable commencing July first, two thousand seven
• N.Y. Educ. Law § 3609-b — Moneys apportioned for students with disabilities, when and how payable
• N.Y. Educ. Law § 3609-d — Moneys apportioned for board of cooperative educational services aidable expenditures when and how payable commencing July first, two tho...
• N.Y. Educ. Law § 3609-e — School tax relief aid, when and how payable commencing July first, nineteen hundred ninety-eight
• N.Y. Educ. Law § 3609-f — Moneys apportioned to school districts for lottery grants pursuant to subparagraph two-a of paragraph b of subdivision four of section ni...
• N.Y. Educ. Law § 3609-g — Moneys apportioned to school districts for reimbursement of article twenty-three of the tax law payments commencing in the 2009-2010 scho...
• N.Y. Educ. Law § 3609-h — Moneys apportioned to school districts for commercial gaming grants pursuant to subdivision six of section ninety-seven-nnnn of the state...
• N.Y. Educ. Law § 3610 — Apportionment for apprenticeship training
• N.Y. Educ. Law § 3611 — Racial and cultural awareness fund
• N.Y. Educ. Law § 3612 — Teachers of tomorrow teacher recruitment and retention program
• N.Y. Educ. Law § 3613 — School district reorganizations and real property tax rates
• N.Y. Educ. Law § 3620 — Application
• N.Y. Educ. Law § 3621 — Definitions
• N.Y. Educ. Law § 3622 — Routes
• N.Y. Educ. Law § 3622-a — Aidable regular transportation
• N.Y. Educ. Law § 3623 — School buses
• N.Y. Educ. Law § 3623-a — Allowable transportation expense
• N.Y. Educ. Law § 3624 — Drivers, monitors and attendants
• N.Y. Educ. Law § 3625 — Contracts
• N.Y. Educ. Law § 3626 — Data for administration
• N.Y. Educ. Law § 3627 — Transportation after 4pm
• N.Y. Educ. Law § 3628 — Excess expenditures
• N.Y. Educ. Law § 3635 — Transportation
• N.Y. Educ. Law § 3635-a — Safety belt usage
• N.Y. Educ. Law § 3635-b — Authorization to provide pupil transportation in child safety zones
• N.Y. Educ. Law § 3635-c — Standing passengers prohibited
• N.Y. Educ. Law § 3636 — Passage of school buses across railroad crossings
• N.Y. Educ. Law § 3637 — Idling school buses on school grounds
• N.Y. Educ. Law § 3638 — Zero-emission school buses
• N.Y. Educ. Law § 3640 — Application
• N.Y. Educ. Law § 3641 — Special apportionments and grants-in-aid to school districts
• N.Y. Educ. Law § 3641-a — Excelsior scholars program for grade seven mathematics and science students
• N.Y. Educ. Law § 3641-b — Grants for summer institutes for mathematics and science teachers
• N.Y. Educ. Law § 3642 — Severability
• N.Y. Educ. Law § 3650 — Comprehensive school bus driver safety training program
• N.Y. Educ. Law § 3650-a — State comprehensive school bus driver safety training council
• N.Y. Educ. Law § 3650-b — Drivers and instructors; training and safety
• N.Y. Educ. Law § 3650-c — Accident report data base
• N.Y. Educ. Law § 3651 — Reserve fund
• N.Y. Educ. Law § 3652 — Investment of moneys in reserve funds
• N.Y. Educ. Law § 3653 — Insurance reserve funds
• N.Y. Educ. Law § 3653 — Reserves funded by resolution
• N.Y. Educ. Law § 3701 — Property to be held in trust for public schools
• N.Y. Educ. Law § 3702 — Control and supervision of trusts for public schools
• N.Y. Educ. Law § 3703 — Report of trusts to commissioner of education
• N.Y. Educ. Law § 3704 — Report of supervisor regarding gospel or school lots
• N.Y. Educ. Law § 3705 — Apportionment of gospel funds
• N.Y. Educ. Law § 3706 — Authorization of apportionment of gospel funds