New York Laws
Part 1 - Compulsory Education
3230 - School District Meetings and Activities.

§ 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 of education,
trustees, school district or a district school which is specific to a
child's educational program and which parents or persons in parental
relationship who are deaf or hard of hearing, as defined by the
commissioner, attend, the board of education or trustees shall provide
interpreter services at no charge to such persons, provided a written
request therefor is made to the school district within a reasonable time
prior to the scheduled meeting or activity. In the event interpreter
services are requested, the school district shall appoint an interpreter
of the deaf to interpret the proceedings of the meeting or activity. In
the event that an interpreter is unavailable, other reasonable
accommodations shall be made which are satisfactory to the parents or
guardians.

2. Each board of education or trustees shall adopt a policy which
shall establish the time limitation for requesting interpreter services,
examples of what constitutes reasonable accommodations and how the
regulations of the commissioner promulgated pursuant to this chapter
shall be implemented.

3. For the purposes of this section "meeting" or "activity" shall
include those school-initiated meetings or activities which parents or
persons in parental relationship who are deaf or hard of hearing attend
which are specific to the academic and/or disciplinary aspects of their
child's educational program including parent-teacher conferences and
other such meetings and activities as defined by the commissioner.