ARTICLE 35 Orphan Schools Section 900. Schools of orphan asylums. 901. Rules subject to supervision of school authorities. 902. Annual reports. § 900. Schools of orphan asylums. The schools of the several incorporated orphan asylum societies in this state, other than those in the city of New York, shall participate in the distribution of the school moneys, in the same manner and to the same extent, in proportion to the number of children educated therein, as the common schools in their respective cities or districts. The schools of said societies shall be subject to the rules and regulations of the common schools in such cities or districts, but shall remain under the immediate management and direction of the said societies as heretofore. § 901. Rules subject to supervision of school authorities. Every such asylum may make all laws, rules and regulations relative to the education and discipline of their inmates, as a majority of the trustees thereof at their annual meetings shall think fit and proper; but such laws, rules and regulations shall not be repugnant to the laws of this state in its policy in reference to public and primary instruction, and shall be subject at all times to the inspection and supervision of the several educational officers of the different villages, towns or cities in which such orphan asylums may be located. § 902. Annual reports. An annual report shall be made and sworn to by the presiding officer of any such asylum, stating the number of inmates thereof, the time spent by them in pursuing studies therein, in what studies they shall have been instructed, and the manner in which the public funds distributed to it shall have been expended, which shall be filed with the commissioner of education. ARTICLE 36 Schools for Colored Children Section 920. No exclusion on account of race or color. 922. Only qualified teachers shall be employed. ARTICLE 37 Indian Schools Section 940. Duties of commissioner regarding Indian children. 941. Co-operation of Indians shall be sought. 942. Rights of Indians and of state shall be guarded. 943. Indian children not entitled to free tuition in public schools. 944. Employment of teachers, et cetera. 945. Required attendance upon instruction. 946. Duties of persons in parental relation to Indian 947. Penalty for failure to send children to school. 949. Teachers' record of attendance. 950. Attendance officers. 951. Arrest of truants. 952. Commissioner of education to contract for keeping of truants. 953. Enumeration. 954. Payment of services herein required. (Text of article omitted.) ARTICLE 38 Instruction of Deaf-Mutes and of the Blind Section 970. Duties of commissioner of education. 971. Persons eligible as pupils to institutions for instruction of the deaf and dumb. 972. Persons eligible as pupils to institutions for instruc- 973. Support and term of instruction of state pupils. 975. Clothing for state pupils. 976. Aid for blind and deaf students. 977. Indigent deaf-mute children. 978. Deaf-mute children improperly cared for. 979. Maintenance of children. 980. Payment of expenses of tuition and maintenance. (Text of article omitted.) ARTICLE 39 New York State School for the Blind Section 990. Change of name. 991. Requisites for admission. 992. Applicants from without the state. 993. Applications for admission. 994. Object of institution. 995. Appointment and terms of trustees. 996. Filling vacancies. 997. Trustees entitled to mileage; disabilities. 998. General powers of trustees. 999. Officers, committees and seal. 1000. Secretary. 1001. Treasurer's duties and bond. 1002. Appointment of superintendent, instructors and assistants. 1003. Purchase of equipment. 1004. Duty to provide clothing and pay traveling ex penses. 1005. Charges against county. 1006. Accounts against counties and payment thereof. 1007. Reimbursement of counties. 1008. Entitled to publications and may receive bequests. and donations. 1009. Records and annual reports. ARTICLE 39-A [Added by L. 1917, ch. 559, in effect May 18, 1917.] § 1020. Physically defective children. 1. The board of education of each city and of each union free school district. and the board of trustees of each school district shall, within one year from the time this act becomes effective, ascertain, under regulations prescribed by the commissioner of education and approved by the regents of the university, the number of children in such city or district under the age of eighteen years who are deaf, blind, so crippled or otherwise so physically defective as to be unable to attend upon instruction in regular classes maintained in public schools. 2. The board of education of each city and of each union free school district in which there are ten or more children who are deaf, blind, crippled or otherwise physically defective shall establish such special classes as may be necessary to provide instruction adapted to the mental attainments and physical conditions of such children. Provided, however, that in each city or union free school district in which schools for the deaf, blind, crippled or otherwise physically defective now exist or may hereafter be established, which are incorporated under the laws of the state and are found by the board of education to be adequate to provide instruction adapted to the mental attainments and physical conditions of such children, the board of education shall not be required to supply additional special classes for the children so provided for. The board of education of such cities or union free school districts is hereby authorized and empowered to contract with such schools for the education of such children in special classes therein. [Amended by L. 1918, ch. 378, in effect April 30, 1918.] 3. The board of education of each city and of each union free school district, and the board of trustees of each school district, which contains less than ten children who are deaf, blind, crippled or otherwise physically defective, is hereby authorized and empowered to contract with the board of education of another city or school district for the education of such children in special classes organized in the schools of the city or district with which such contract is made. [Added by L. 1917, ch. 559, in effect May 18, 1917.] ARTICLE 40 Cornell University Section 1030. Cornell university continued. 1031. Trustees; election of trustees. 1032. Extent of farm and grounds; special constables. 1033. Objects and powers of the corporation. 1034. Extent to which property may be held. Section 1035. Trustees shall make reports; university subject to visitation of regents. 1036. Restrictions on alienation of property. ARTICLE 40-A [Article 40-A, added by L. 1917, ch. 207, in effect April 19, 1917.] Agricultural Schools Section 1040. Courses of study; instruction. 1041. Recommendations as to appropriations; expendi tures. § 1040. Courses of study; instruction. The instruction of pupils attending the schools of agriculture established under the provisions of articles forty-one, forty-one-a, forty-two, forty-two-a, forty-three and forty-five-a of this chapter shall be under the general supervision of the commissioner of education. The commissioner of education is hereby authorized to approve the courses of study to be followed in such schools of agriculture and in the extension work carried on by such schools, including the training of teachers of agriculture. Such directions shall be given by the commissioner to the board of directors or trustees, as the case may be, of each agricultural school, and such board of directors or trustees shall, upon receiving such directions as to such courses of study, cause the same to be followed and the subjects therein prescribed to be taught in such schools. [Added by L. 1917, ch. 207, in effect April 19, 1917.] § 1041. Recommendations as to appropriations; expenditures. The commissioner of education shall recommend annually to the legislature the amount of appropriations approved by him as necessary for the maintenance of such agricultural schools and for carrying into effect the purposes for which they were established. The amounts appropriated for the support and maintenance of such schools shall be paid out by the state treasurer upon the warrant and audit of the comptroller and upon vouchers approved by the commissioner of education. |