N.Y. Education Law § 12: Discrimination and harassment prohibited

§ 12. Discrimination and harassment prohibited. 1. No student shall be

subjected to harassment or bullying by employees or students on school

property or at a school function; nor shall any student be subjected to

discrimination based on a person's actual or perceived race, color,

weight, national origin, ethnic group, religion, religious practice,

disability, sexual orientation, gender, or sex by school employees or

students on school property or at a school function. Nothing in this

subdivision shall be construed to prohibit a denial of admission into,

or exclusion from, a course of instruction based on a person's gender

that would be permissible under section thirty-two hundred one-a or

paragraph (a) of subdivision two of section twenty-eight hundred

fifty-four of this chapter and title IX of the Education Amendments of

1972 (20 U.S.C. section 1681, et. seq.), or to prohibit, as

discrimination based on disability, actions that would be permissible

under section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973.

2. An age-appropriate version of the policy outlined in subdivision

one of this section, written in plain-language, shall be included in the

code of conduct adopted by boards of education and the trustees or sole

trustee pursuant to section twenty-eight hundred one of this chapter and

a summary of such policy shall be included in any summaries required by

such section twenty-eight hundred one.