New York Laws
Part 1 - General Organization
211-E - Educational Partnership Organizations.

(i) "educational partnership organization" means a board of
cooperative educational services, a public or independent, non-profit
institution of higher education, a cultural institution, or a private,
non-profit organization with a proven record of success in intervening
in low-performing schools, as determined by the commissioner, provided
that such term shall not include a charter school;
(ii) "board of education" means the trustees or board of education of
a school district, or, in the case of a city school district of a city
having a population of one million or more, the chancellor of such city
district;
(iii) "school district" means a common, union free, central, central
high school or city school district, other than a special act school
district as defined in section four thousand one of this chapter.
(iv) "superintendent of schools" means the superintendent of schools
of a school district, and, in the case of a city school district of a
city having a population of one million or more, a community
superintendent and the chancellor of such city district when acting in
the role of a superintendent of schools.

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