Requires the commissioner of education to establish a uniform dress code across all public high schools.
Requires the commissioner of education to establish uniform statewide protocols for diapering and toileting of students in public schools.
Requires the commissioner of education to establish uniform statewide protocols for diapering and toileting of students in public schools.
Requires the commissioner of health to establish means of educating proprietors and employees of public eating establishments about food allergens.
Establishes the "public higher education quality initiative endowment" fund.
Establishes minimum educational requirements of certain town and village justices.
Establishes minimum educational requirements of certain town and village justices.
Authorizes the commissioner of education to contract with three public or independent institutions of higher education for the support of special summer programs established in order to increase the number of economically and educationally disadvantaged undergraduate students who are prepared for admission to graduate educational programs; establishes eligibility requirements in order to attend such special summer programs; appropriates $711,200 therefor.
Enacts the "schools impacted by gross highways (SIGH) act"; prohibits the commissioner of education from approving the plans for the erection of any new schoolhouse within five hundred feet of a controlled-access highway unless the commissioner of education determines that space limitations are so severe that there is no other site to erect such new schoolhouse.
Requires the commissioner of education to make a report on the extent of all existing resources and best practices available for swimming instruction classes in public schools and establish a working group on swimming education.