New York Laws
Article 51 - City School Districts of Cities With Less Than One Hundred Twenty-Five Thousand Inhabitants
2514 - Kindergartens, Nursery and Night Schools.

§ 2514. Kindergartens, nursery and night schools. 1. The board of
education of each city school district may maintain kindergartens which
shall be free to resident children between the ages of four and six
years, provided, however, such board may fix a higher minimum age for
admission to such kindergartens.

2. A board of education may maintain nursery schools which shall be
free to resident children and may fix the age for admission.

3. Night schools, which shall be free to all persons residing in the
city school district, and wherein the common branches and, in the
discretion of the board of education, such additional subjects as may be
adapted to students applying for instruction are taught on at least two
nights each week, for two hours each night, shall be maintained by the
board of education:

a. In city school districts of a city having a population of one
hundred thousand or more, according to the latest federal census on at
least one hundred nights.

b. In city school districts of a city having a population of fifty
thousand but less than one hundred thousand, according to the latest
federal census, on at least seventy-five nights.

c. In each other city school district, on at least fifty nights.

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