N.Y. Education Law § 1714: Contracts with academies

§ 1714. Contracts with academies. The board of education of a union

free school district, with the approval of the commissioner of

education, may adopt an academy as the academic department thereof, and

contract for the instruction therein of pupils of academic grade,

residing in the district. The academy thereupon becomes the academic

department of such union free school district, and the district is

entitled to the same rights and privileges, is subject to the same

duties, and the apportionment and distribution of state school money

shall be made to it, as if an academic department had been established

in such district.